Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5/6/7 kernel emulator for NetBSD 2.x
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/27/2005 18:03:58
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:32:02PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>
> They are bigger than on-disk nodes, but not so much. You can ceratinly keep
> a bunch of them in memory, specially considering that a devfs doesn't have
> a lot of nodes; you'll only have those that you really need.
They're enough bigger that tmpfs isn't really useful for /tmp on, for
instance, anoncvs.netbsd.org (which has hundreds of thousands of tiny
files in it). This is very unfortunate.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
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