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="YES" and varmfs="YES" in rc.conf 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 :) > > 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. > > 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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