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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:01:36 +1000 (EST)
From:      Carl Makin <carl@xena.aipo.gov.au>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Support for large mfs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004281058490.37264-100000@newton.aipo.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <200004271634.JAA05279@apollo.backplane.com>

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Hi Matthew,

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     I can't imagine why MFS would perform better... it shouldn't, every
>     block is stored in system memory *TWICE* (once in the VM cache, and
>     once in the mfs process's address space).  If you have enough system 

I've been running a MFS /tmp dir since around 2.2.4, are you now saying
that it would be better (under 4.0-STABLE or CURRENT) to run a swap backed
vnode fs?

Carl.




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