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Subject: Re: is TMPFS still highly experimental?
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Hi,

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I've also not heard of anyone using it with zfs successfully- it tends to
> shrink rapidly.

I'm quite surprised with this assertion.  I use tmpfs on my own system
and I never see such problem as long as one have sufficient swap
space.

Not to say there is no problem --there is no way to say "commit this
amount of memory to ZFS" but really I have never hit this exact
alleged problem...

Cheers,
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