md /tmp and async mounts

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Wed May 24 13:35:12 PDT 2006


On 2006-05-23 15:41, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> You are confusing mdconfig's -o async mode, used only for vnode
> backing (not the case here anyway):
>
>              [no]async
>                      For vnode backed devices: avoid IO_SYNC for increased
>                      performance but at the risk of deadlocking the entire
>                      kernel.
>
> with mount's -o async mode, used at the filesystem layer on any
> device.  The latter does not have deadlocks.

Hi Kris,

so we can safely add async to `tmpmfs_flags' in /etc/defaults/rc.conf?

If that is so, do you want me to make the change, or do you want to do
this?




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