Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:37:59 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental" Message-ID: <20110628093759.GH48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20110627174207.GA99971@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20110623163109.GA508@dragon.NUXI.org> <20110623202153.GS48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20110627174207.GA99971@dragon.NUXI.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:42:07AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > Hi KIB, > Thanks for the list of issues you know about -- I don't believe we have > PRs covering those. > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > - I believe Peter Holm has more test cases that fails with tmpfs. He > > would have more details. I somewhat remember some panic on execve(2) the > > binary located on tmpfs. > > I've been following the patches you've been passing to Peter Holm as part > of this thread. Seems good progress has been made in fixing some of the > issues. > > > > Removing the warning will not make the issues coming away. > > Quite true, but is there any other subsystem where we know we have bugs > and have put up such a scary warning? > > I've never used ZFS on i386, but I understand it is trivial to panic > with out-of-the-box settings. We don't print a dire warning for ZFS > usage on 32-bit platforms. So I'm not sure we should keep it for TMPFS. > > I cannot tell from your response if you're OK or against removing > the warning. [especially if your patches pass the Peter Holm test > and remove some of the bugs] If anything, the removal of the said warning would reduce the kernel text size. Probably, it should be moved to the man page, which already has similar, but not that strong, wording. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4JoPcACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4jZbgCfRPXd7uPMqlpSg/x/SgSG5evJ 6kYAoOomggMYCwSJiS1B8F2udPFk0el+ =Z1cq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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