Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 07:16:31 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: peter@netplex.com.au, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: looking for ram file system (NOT MFS) Message-ID: <199806301216.HAA14519@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <13585.899201507@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jun 30, 1998 12:11:47 pm"
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In a previous message, Poul-Henning Kamp said: > >I believe Poul-Henning Kamp was working on a mallocfs at some point.. > > > >MFS is bad in that it doesn't allocate and release swap. It'd be seriously > >great to have something that could allocate and free pageable memory as > >files were written and deleted. MFS never releases swap space once the > >mount_mfs process faults in an anon page. Doing it seperately from UFS > >would be a good start since it wouldn't be wasting time emulating a disk > >structure. > > Actually doing it separately from UFS would be a waste of time, but that > is a different issue. > > the mallocfs I wrote used the kernel malloc and was consequently limited > to 20Mbyte and non-pageable. This would be useful to me for my custom install script. Paul. -- IRS HUMOR EXAMPLE A: "A lawyer, a doctor, and a priest were marooned on a desert island. So we confiscated their homes." --Dave Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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