is TMPFS still highly experimental?

[Xin LI]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 2:01 AM, krad <kraduk at gmail.com> wrote:
> It may seem a silly question, but I have been wondering about tmpfs and zfs,
> and whether there is any point to mixing the two?
>
> Surely if you have frequently accessed files under /tmp they are going to be
> in the arc or l2arc anyway so fairly speedy, or am I missing the point of
> tmpfs?

tmpfs is useful when persist storage is unnecessary -- when system
goes off (or rebooted) the data are dropped.  If you use a normal file
system then persist semantics are obeyed say, if you do sync(), data
is being flushed into data, etc.

Cheers,
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