Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

From: Alexander Best <arundel_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:53:14 +0000
On Thu Jun 23 11, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't 
> remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system.
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone object to this patch?
> >
> >David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two
> >years with no problems.

+1 here. i haven't experienced any issues for > 1 year or so, but if people
think removing the warning entirely is too early, maybe the warning can be
rephrased in order to be less frightening.

maybe sth like:

"TMPFS still needs wider testing and thus should not be considered ready for
 production use, yet."

cheers.
alex

> >
> >I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on
> >TMPFS either.
> >
> >
> >Index: tmpfs_vfsops.c
> >===================================================================
> >--- tmpfs_vfsops.c	(revision 221113)
> >+++ tmpfs_vfsops.c	(working copy)
> >_at__at_ -155,9 +155,6 _at__at_ tmpfs_mount(struct mount *mp)
> >		return EOPNOTSUPP;
> >	}
> >
> >-	printf("WARNING: TMPFS is considered to be a highly experimental "
> >-	    "feature in FreeBSD.\n");
> >-
> >	vn_lock(mp->mnt_vnodecovered, LK_SHARED | LK_RETRY);
> >	error = VOP_GETATTR(mp->mnt_vnodecovered, &va, mp->mnt_cred);
> >	VOP_UNLOCK(mp->mnt_vnodecovered, 0);
> >
> >-- 
> >-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
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