Re: tmpfs projects

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:54:43PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > > Are these two projects already complete or been taken care of by people?
 > > Those look like a good entry point to the file system:
 > >
 > >    - Memory-usage policies for tmpfs
 > >    <http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/tmpfs-memory-usage/>
 > >    - Add snapshots to tmpfs
 > >    <http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/tmpfs-snapshot/>
 > 
 > I'm not clear on who's working on them - check the code in -current.
 > But I would suggest that the former is more useful to people.

I believe someone's been working on the former, at least the way it's
stated on the project page.

However, a different thing that also constitutes memory-usage policies
for tmpfs is: implementing quota support for tempfs. That I'm quite
sure nobody's done.

 > Another thing, far far bigger, is modernizing our ZFS support.  But it
 > would be a huge contribution to make progress.

That's a lot to bite off for a newbie...

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David A. Holland
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