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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 14:45:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        mellon@pobox.com (Anatoly Vorobey)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proper uses for MFS?
Message-ID:  <200005251845.OAA67888@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000525141623.D6776@sasami.jurai.net> from Anatoly Vorobey at "May 25, 2000  2:16:23 pm"

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> You, Matthew Dillon, were spotted writing this on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:57:33AM -0700:
> > 
> >     I don't particularly like to use MFS for 'large' partitions, mainly
> >     because cached data blocks wind up in core memory twice (once in MFS's
> >     memory map, and once in the VM page cache).
> 
> You've said this several times in threads on MFS during recent months,
> and I've always wanted to ask: is that a necessary 'feature' of MFS's
> architecture, or something which could possibly be fixed without
> too much hard work? For instance, would it be possible to force
> VM not to cache MFS pages, etc.?

It's my understanding that VM caching of MFS is a feature, not a bug.  See
/usr/share/doc/papers/memfs.ascii.gz .

==ml


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