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

From: Chris Rees <crees_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:52:36 +0100
On 23 June 2011 17:31, David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org> 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.
>
> 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)

How about noting that no-one's managed to get it to work correctly
with ZFS yet, but fine with UFS?

Chris
Received on Thu Jun 23 2011 - 16:53:07 UTC

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