From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 22:07:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D70916A425 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:07:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F377B43D49 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:07:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5EF1A4EB6; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DA7B4512A6; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:07:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:07:24 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Craig Boston , Giorgos Keramidas , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060602220724.GA71883@xor.obsecurity.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060602215005.GA43170@nowhere> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Subject: Re: md /tmp and async mounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:07:28 -0000 --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEgLabWry0BWjoQKURAs4/AJ4p1wyj2S2Y/SgYw6f88FgZxljRYACeJC8N REUijix3UIlkTQRDWdR5I9Q= =lM2e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--