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Re: tmpfs projects
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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