Softupdates a mount option?

[Ivan Voras]

Bernd Walter wrote:

>>>It makes sense to never enable soft updates on a memory drive, since soft
>>>updates uses extra CPU cycles to try to speed up i/o to real drives (and
>>
>>Then maybe the default should be changed?
>>
>>From 'man mdmfs':
>>     By default, mdmfs creates a swap-based (MD_SWAP) disk with soft-updates
>>     enabled and mounts it on mount-point.
> 
> 
> swap != ram
> SU makes perfectly sense for swap backed md drives.

I always thought the "swap backed" meant the memory is allocated from the 
same pool as for userland applications, e.g. they only get swapped out if 
memory is scarce. Is this wrong?

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