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.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Xin LI
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd September 8, 2017
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.Dt TMPFS 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm tmpfs
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.Nd "in-memory file system"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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To compile this driver into the kernel,
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place the following line in your
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kernel configuration file:
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.Bd -ragged -offset indent
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.Cd "options TMPFS"
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Alternatively, to load the driver as a
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module at boot time, place the following line in
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.Xr loader.conf 5 :
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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tmpfs_load="YES"
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.Ed
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver implements an in-memory, or
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.Tn tmpfs
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file system.
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The filesystem stores both file metadata and data in main memory.
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This allows very fast and low latency accesses to the data.
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The data is volatile.
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An umount or system reboot invalidates it.
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These properties make the filesystem's mounts suitable for fast
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scratch storage, like
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.Pa /tmp .
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.Pp
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If the system becomes low on memory and swap is configured (see
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.Xr swapon 8 ),
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the system can transfer file data to swap space, freeing memory
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for other needs.
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Metadata, including the directory content, is never swapped out by the
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current implementation.
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Keep this in mind when planning the mount limits, especially when expecting
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to place many small files on a tmpfs mount.
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.Pp
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When
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.Xr mmap 2
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is used on a file from a tmpfs mount, the swap VM object managing the
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file pages is used to implement mapping and avoid double-copying of
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the file data.
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This quirk causes process inspection tools, like
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.Xr procstat 1 ,
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to report anonymous memory mappings instead of file mappings.
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.Sh OPTIONS
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The following options are available when
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mounting
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.Nm
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file systems:
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.Bl -tag -width "It Cm maxfilesize"
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.It Cm gid
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Specifies the group ID of the root inode of the file system.
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Defaults to the mount point's GID.
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.It Cm uid
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Specifies the user ID of the root inode of the file system.
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Defaults to the mount point's UID.
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.It Cm mode
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Specifies the mode (in octal notation) of the root inode of the file system.
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Defaults to the mount point's mode.
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.It Cm nonc
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Do not use namecache to resolve names to files for the created mount.
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This saves memory, but currently might impair scalability for highly
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used mounts on large machines.
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.It Cm inodes
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Specifies the maximum number of nodes available to the file system.
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If not specified, the file system chooses a reasonable maximum based on
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the file system size, which can be limited with the
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.Cm size
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option.
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.It Cm size
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Specifies the total file system size in bytes, unless suffixed
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with one of k, m, g, t, or p, which denote byte, kilobyte,
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megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte and petabyte respectively.
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If zero (the default) or a value larger than SIZE_MAX - PAGE_SIZE
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is given, the available amount of memory (including
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main memory and swap space) will be used.
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.It Cm maxfilesize
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Specifies the maximum file size in bytes.
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Defaults to the maximum possible value.
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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To mount a
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.Nm
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memory file system:
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.Pp
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.Dl "mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp"
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr procstat 1 ,
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.Xr mmap 2 ,
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.Xr nmount 2 ,
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.Xr unmount 2 ,
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.Xr fstab 5 ,
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.Xr mdmfs 8 ,
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.Xr mount 8 ,
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.Xr swapinfo 8 ,
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.Xr swapon 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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driver first appeared in
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.Fx 7.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm
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kernel implementation was written by
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.An Julio M. Merino Vidal Aq Mt jmmv@NetBSD.org
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as a Google Summer of Code project.
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.Pp
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.An Rohit Jalan
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and others ported it from
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.Nx
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to
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.Fx .
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.Pp
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This manual page was written by
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.An Xin LI Aq Mt delphij@FreeBSD.org .
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