Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:40:42 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md devices mounted with async Message-ID: <4854FFBA.8020506@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080615083039.M19706@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20080614224742.17316919@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080615083039.M19706@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the >> async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode >> devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write >> to a physical disk. > i don't think so. > > but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says it's experimental feature, > but still not crashed on 3 computers i use it. There are known bugs, don't use it if you value your stability :) > what it's missing is some kind of quota, you may crash the system by > simply filling it up and using all swap That's one of them. Kris
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