Subject: Re: mfs woes
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/18/2004 06:47:05
In article <20040713230112.A426@noc.untraceable.net>,
	Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> writes:
>>I am told that blocks in the memory filesystem (mfs) can end up in the
>>buffer cache: this double-whammy on memory can lead to memory exhaustion.
> yes, 'cause it's a "file system".
[...]
> write a real swap-based file system?

But a swap-based file system would still be file system. Can filesystems
volunteer not to use the buffer cache in NetBSD?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/