TEST: phk_bufwork patchfile
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Nov 16 15:07:17 PST 2004
In message <20041116174536.GA17279 at nerve.riss-telecom.ru>, Dmitry Frolov writes
:
>* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> [16.11.2004 14:19]:
>
>> >My intents are to make storage available for jails via regular files which
>> >is at the moment no option since performance gets horrible. If I understand
>> >things right then this framework should improove performance dramatically
>> >when e. g. copying /sys to /vnode_backed_md0.
>>
>> Not particularly.
>
>Performance issue with a file backed filesystems is a major showstopper
>for me too. Since I'm not a kernel hacker, I'm currenly waiting for
>someone to fix this. If I understand issue correctly, fixing it requires
>much work on syncer (probably some sort of "layering"?). Does anybody
>working or planning to work on this?
We're getting there, but things take time.
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