On 2006-06-02 18:07, Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org> wrote: >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. Should we still revert the default from using -M for tmpmfs="YES" and varmfs="YES" in rc.conf? - GiorgosReceived on Sun Jun 04 2006 - 03:13:58 UTC
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