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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:07:24 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: md /tmp and async mounts
Message-ID:  <20060602220724.GA71883@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060602215005.GA43170@nowhere>
References:  <20060523133037.GA2908@gothmog.pc> <20060523143013.GA11472@ci0.org> <20060523194106.GA46634@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060524203645.GB13500@gothmog.pc> <20060524203747.GA88742@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060524204617.GA13701@gothmog.pc> <20060601002024.GA1453@gothmog.pc> <20060601210655.GA36389@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060601213527.GA53422@gothmog.pc> <20060602215005.GA43170@nowhere>

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On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:50:06PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:35:27AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > Ok, I'll prepare a patch that enables async and disables -M.  We should
> > also document the fact that tmpmfs=3D"YES" and varmfs=3D"YES" in rc.con=
f may
> > require the presence of at least one swap device by default, and point
> > the users to -M with a warning if they run FreeBSD without a swap device
> > but still want to use tmpmfs or varmfs :)
>=20
> I may be mistaken, but from my (brief) reading of the code it seems to
> me that perhaps "swap-backed" isn't an entirely accurate term.  More
> like "VM-backed", with the understanding that VM is (usually) backed by
> swap.
>=20
> I think if you don't have any swap configured, a swap-backed md will be
> no worse off than a memory-backed one would.

Yeah, it's kind of a poorly chosen name.

Kris

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