Trying to move this to a new thread, although I don't think it has anything to do with ZFS :-)
On 09/28/09 08:54 AM, Chris Gerhard wrote:
TMPFS was not in the first release of 4.0. It was introduced to boost the performance of diskless clients which no longer had the old network disk for their root file systems and hence /tmp was now over NFS. Whether there was a patch that brought it back into 4.0 I don't recall but I don't think so. 4.0.1 would have been the first release that actually had it. --chris
On 09/28/09 03:00 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
I am not sure whether my changes will be kept as wikipedia prefers to keep badly quoted wrong information before correct information supplied by people who have first hand information.
They actually disallow "first hand information". Everything on Wikipedia is supposed to be confirmed by secondary or tertiary sources. That's why I asked if there was any supporting documentation - papers, manuals, proceedings, whatever, that describe the introduction of tmpfs before 1990. If you were to write a personal page (in Wikipedia if you like) that describes the history of tmpfs, then you could refer to it in the tmpfs page as a secondary source. Actually, I suppose if it was in the source code itself, that would be pretty irrefutable! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources Wikipedia also has a lofi page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofi) that redirects to "loop mount". It has no historical section at all... There is no fbk (file system) page. Cheers -- Frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
