Subject: Re: swapfs and uvm.
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/14/2000 11:09:44
> * I was thinking of using a really simple filesystem layout with a
> dynamic number of inodes. No fragments, everything is allocated in
> pagesize chunks. Some rough scribblings on a notepad are geared to a
> 4GB maximum size (page offsets, file sizes) - would this be a problem
> in the real world?
Since swap is usually much tighter on space than a standard filesystem
I would expect that fragments, or more of a malloc()-like scheme would
be more relevent to a /tmp filesystem.
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