md /tmp and async mounts

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-06-02 18:07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:50:06PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
>>On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:35:27AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>> Ok, I'll prepare a patch that enables async and disables -M.  We
>>> should also document the fact that tmpmfs="YES" and varmfs="YES"
>>> in rc.conf may require the presence of at least one swap device
>>> by default, and point the users to -M with a warning if they run
>>> FreeBSD without a swap device but still want to use tmpmfs or
>>> varmfs :)
>>
>> I may be mistaken, but from my (brief) reading of the code it seems
>> to me that perhaps "swap-backed" isn't an entirely accurate term.
>> More like "VM-backed", with the understanding that VM is (usually)
>> backed by swap.
>>
>> I think if you don't have any swap configured, a swap-backed md
>> will be no worse off than a memory-backed one would.
>
> Yeah, it's kind of a poorly chosen name.

Should we still revert the default from using -M for tmpmfs="YES" and
varmfs="YES" in rc.conf?

- Giorgos