From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 30 11:41:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA03570 for current-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from veda.is (adam@veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA03551 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:41:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@veda.is) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.8.7/8.8.5) id TAA14160; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:37:38 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199710301937.TAA14160@veda.is> Subject: Re: MFS ? In-Reply-To: <314.878228432@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Oct 30, 97 05:20:32 pm" To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:37:37 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >What would happen if I tried to use MFS with it broken? Would it just not > >run, or would it grow legs and stomp all over the place? > > Have I missed a report on it being broken ? > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." [from October 19th - 23rd]... ==== quote Joao Carlos Mendes Luis said: > #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. > I have been thinking about something like that (except more of a cross between the two.) Maybe I'll do something this week (I am ill.) -- John dyson@freebsd.org ==== unquote