md /tmp and async mounts

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Tue May 23 08:31:31 PDT 2006


Quoting Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> (Tue, 23 May 2006 17:17:57 +0300):

> >
> > The sys/dev/md/md.c rev 1.115 commit log says async used to be
> > the default, but was switched off because it was causing
> > deadlocks. Did this get fixed since ?
> 
> I am not sure.  If a deadlock *does* exist though, then it's not
> an improvement and we should definitely keep the default to its
> current state until the bug is fixed.

AFAIK it isn't. Therefore we have
   http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/index.html#p-mdfs

Bye,
Alexander.

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