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Date:      Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:07:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106231007140.21759@ns1.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110623163109.GA508@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <20110623163109.GA508@dragon.NUXI.org>

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I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't 
remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system.

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote:

> Does anyone object to this patch?
>
> David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two
> years with no problems.
>
> I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on
> TMPFS either.
>
>
> Index: tmpfs_vfsops.c
> ===================================================================
> --- tmpfs_vfsops.c	(revision 221113)
> +++ tmpfs_vfsops.c	(working copy)
> @@ -155,9 +155,6 @@ tmpfs_mount(struct mount *mp)
> 		return EOPNOTSUPP;
> 	}
>
> -	printf("WARNING: TMPFS is considered to be a highly experimental "
> -	    "feature in FreeBSD.\n");
> -
> 	vn_lock(mp->mnt_vnodecovered, LK_SHARED | LK_RETRY);
> 	error = VOP_GETATTR(mp->mnt_vnodecovered, &va, mp->mnt_cred);
> 	VOP_UNLOCK(mp->mnt_vnodecovered, 0);
>
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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