md devices mounted with async
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sun Jun 15 06:34:13 UTC 2008
>
> mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the
> async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode
> devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write
> to a physical disk.
i don't think so.
but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says it's experimental feature, but
still not crashed on 3 computers i use it.
what it's missing is some kind of quota, you may crash the system by
simply filling it up and using all swap
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