is TMPFS still highly experimental?

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Sat Oct 1 15:41:44 UTC 2011


On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, Robert Millan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is TMPFS still considered highly experimental? I notice a warning
> saying this was added in 2007:
>
> fs/tmpfs/tmpfs_vfsops.c:        printf("WARNING: TMPFS is considered
> to be a highly experimental "
>
> Since it's very old, I wonder if it still applies. After 4 years and
> 54 commits, can someone tell if the maturity of this file system has
> improved significantly?

This thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-June/025475.html
has covered this topic somewhat.  Peter Holm (pho) is known for running 
pretty intensive filesystem (and other) stress tests, and did not come up 
with a whole lot of crashes.
Also, 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&sort=none&text=tmpfs
is not too big, showing only a couple of new reports.
Mayhaps it is not "highly" experimental, but probably still experimental, 
at least.

-Ben Kaduk


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