Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:29:35 -0700 From: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tmpfs experimental? Message-ID: <4A36930F.2000302@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <h162mo$jj2$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <h162mo$jj2$1@ger.gmane.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Voras wrote: > Hi, > > Are there still known problems with tmpfs? > > I've been using it for a while in 7-STABLE and 8-CURRENT without > noticeable problems - not that there was ever serious load involved > (normal /tmp activity). I've just tried it and it survived a couple of > rounds of blogbench, even with virtual memory swapping. > > In other words, is there still reason for the "highly experimental > feature" warning? Last time when I added the warning, it was because some data corruption issue that can be identified by fsx which I didn't got a chance to investigate further. I think tmpfs is Ok for some usual work but maybe not ready for production at that moment. alc@ and kib@ has made a lot of changes on it recently so perhaps we need to re-visit the problems, tmpfs would be a great feature for us. Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAko2kw8ACgkQi+vbBBjt66D8LwCgiEevv8qy5pl/b73rDhXU6oso jr0AoLKo/WGvoLOU7HrivC8KK2yidKo+ =alk6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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