Re: mfs/mdconfig under RELENG_5: malloc vs swap-backed

2005-08-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-01 21:43, Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > GK> Yes, I like the change. I'm not an src-committer, so it is just an > GK> informed opinion by someone who eats shell scripts for breakfast, so > GK> feel free to ask the [EMAIL PRO

Re: mfs/mdconfig under RELENG_5: malloc vs swap-backed

2005-08-01 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: GK> On 2005-08-01 20:50, Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GK> >On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: GK> can anyone please point me why mdconfig method for tmpmfs is GK> malloc-backed instead of swap-backed, and it is

Re: mfs/mdconfig under RELENG_5: malloc vs swap-backed

2005-08-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-01 20:50, Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: can anyone please point me why mdconfig method for tmpmfs is malloc-backed instead of swap-backed, and it is hardcoded into rc.subr? Are swap-backed file system

Re: mfs/mdconfig under RELENG_5: malloc vs swap-backed

2005-08-01 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: JCML> > > can anyone please point me why mdconfig method for tmpmfs is JCML> > > malloc-backed instead of swap-backed, and it is hardcoded into JCML> > > rc.subr? JCML> > > Are swap-backed file systems so inefficient? If no, why not move -M to J

Re: mfs/mdconfig under RELENG_5: malloc vs swap-backed

2005-08-01 Thread João Carlos Mendes Luis
Bernd Walter wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:41:24PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: Dear colleagues, can anyone please point me why mdconfig method for tmpmfs is malloc-backed instead of swap-backed, and it is hardcoded into rc.subr? Are swap-backed file systems so inefficient? If no, w

Re: mfs/mdconfig under RELENG_5: malloc vs swap-backed

2005-07-29 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:41:24PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > can anyone please point me why mdconfig method for tmpmfs > is malloc-backed instead of swap-backed, and it is hardcoded into rc.subr? > > Are swap-backed file systems so inefficient? If no, why not move

Re: mfs limits

2001-03-19 Thread Alexey Zakirov
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Deslions Nicolas wrote: > Hi, > > i'm trying to setup a 850Mb ramdrive but MFS seems limited ... i didn't > found any way to do something bigger than 500Mb > > Any idea ? You should increase "options MAXDSIZ=" in your kernel config file. See LINT for further description. **

Re: MFS

2000-10-10 Thread Michael Lucas
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:12:16PM -0700, Nathaniel G H wrote: > > Can one of you help me with a quick overview of what has happened > > with the Memory File System since 4.4BSD to the FreeBSD that exists > > today? > > Hi, > > I've never used it myself, but I read an article about it on > the O

RE: MFS

2000-10-09 Thread Nathaniel G H
> Can one of you help me with a quick overview of what has happened > with the Memory File System since 4.4BSD to the FreeBSD that exists > today? Hi, I've never used it myself, but I read an article about it on the O'Reilly network; hold on a sec while I look it up http://www.oreillynet.co