Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:36:17 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Info about MFS Message-ID: <364.877588577@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:49:21 -0200." <199710230049.WAA07837@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
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In message <199710230049.WAA07837@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis writes: >#define quoting(John S. Dyson) >// My first-cut attempt of fixing MFS only helped a little. It is broken, >// and please don't bother using it until I, PHK or someone else fixes it. >// I am working on it right now. > >Talking about MFS remembered me about this. > >How hard would it be to implement Sun's tmpfs ? It's lots more >efficient in terms of memory use and speed than mfs. speed wise it's the same, memory use it's a lot better. Not very hard actually. All you have to do is to take a copy of sys/ufs/ffs/* and make it store it all on the swap-space. Many people have talked about this (me included), but nobody have done it so far. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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