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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--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--
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