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Date:      Sat, 1 Oct 2011 18:02:39 -0700
From:      Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, delphij@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is TMPFS still highly experimental?
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Hi,

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I've also not heard of anyone using it with zfs successfully- it tends to
> shrink rapidly.

I'm quite surprised with this assertion.  I use tmpfs on my own system
and I never see such problem as long as one have sufficient swap
space.

Not to say there is no problem --there is no way to say "commit this
amount of memory to ZFS" but really I have never hit this exact
alleged problem...

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> https://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die



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