On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 02:53:43AM -0400, Eric Furman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016, at 06:41 AM, Marko Cupa?? wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:48:46 +0300 > > Consus <con...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > > Come on, both you and Theo are such drama queens. Shut up already. > > > > This. But I'd say there's more to it. > <bad analogy snipped> > > The guy was just being a troll and Theo saw right through him. > At the risk of sounding like a troll myself since I don't know the whole > story behind tmpfs, I am going to guess that the tmpfs fiasco was > not one of Theo's finest hours and he doesn't want to be reminded > of it. OpenBSD has moved on from tmpfs and the issue is closed.
Nope, I'm rather sure Theo doesn't care one way or the other. I'm one of the guys who would very much like working tmpfs. Actually, it has worked "good enough for me", but there are a few issues at work. - I lack the time needed to fully dive into the kernel part. - naddy did say multiple times it doesn't go all that fast compared to ffs with ssd (well, I don't have a ssd on my build machines, so tmpfs is marginally faster) - there are loads of small nits in it that should properly be fixed. Admittedly, I think a few good things came out of tmpfs. I've seen the fixes (dabbled) for some of the problems, and in at least one case, the argument check was moved up into the VFS layer. In reality, every time I look at the VFS kernel layer, I get side-tracked into thinking this is horrible code (the marshalling/unmarshalling of parameters is very unnecessary, and doing pseudo inheritance by hand at the function pointer level is horrible... there's a huge amount of weird duplicated code in there... having three vfs structs for each fs based on the type of file (normal file or otherwise) is rather strange, and I'm reasonably certain some of the failure mode is dubious at best. That said, it's on my long long list of things to try to play more with eventually... but that list gets longer everyday, and Theo and other people tend to add "priority" items to it that trump my ventures into kernel-land...
