mdmfs broken? --> no, but md is broken!

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 12 01:09:29 PDT 2003


On Mon, 12 May 2003, Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > What's the correct syntax in 5-CURRENT to have a memory disk for /tmp
> > in your /etc/fstab?

I committed an example of this in mdmfs(8).

> Others have answerred as how it can be done.
> However, I  must strongly inform you against using md on 5-CURRENT,
> particularly for /tmp, has I found it dangerously buggy.

I had problems with it a few months ago, but they were fixed. I haven't
tested it thoroughly with tar as you describe though.

Doug

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