From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 15 18:30:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08D41065672; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:30:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.delphij.net (delphij-pt.tunnel.tserv2.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f03:2c9::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CD28FC1F; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:30:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.delphij.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99B8D5C06F; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:30:51 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (tarsier.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BEC55CD43A; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:30:51 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([211.166.10.233]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lWzF3zfT13M0; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:30:00 +0800 (CST) Received: from charlie.delphij.net (adsl-76-237-33-62.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [76.237.33.62]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4C74155CD44A; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:29:54 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kUS5zaMEJsT97gtHRxhWreomeYLMWsG+j2KZ4QRtA/+WmAEZJA2ORBpa92NKyxKTc JSapSsX2z9KR9LgSaA0pw== Message-ID: <4A36930F.2000302@delphij.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:29:35 -0700 From: Xin LI Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090408) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=18EDEBA0; url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tmpfs experimental? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:30:53 -0000 -----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 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-----