is TMPFS still highly experimental?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Sun Oct 2 22:40:09 UTC 2011


On 02/10/2011 11:01, krad 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?

You use it when you want to be more certain that your data will never
touch a drive. It's not only for short lived files.



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