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Ian Lepore 50e3590c44 Enhance mdmfs(8) to work with tmpfs(5).
Existing scripts and associated config such as rc.initdiskless, rc.d/var,
and others, use mdmfs to create memory filesystems. That program accepts a
size argument which allows SI suffixes and treats an unsuffixed number as a
count of 512 byte sectors. That makes it difficult to convert existing
scripts to use tmpfs instead of mdmfs, because tmpfs treats unsuffixed
numbers as a count of bytes. The script logic to deal with existing user
config that might include suffixed and unsuffixed numbers is... unpleasant.

Also, there is no g'tee that tmpfs will be available. It is sometimes
configured out of small-resource embedded systems to save memory and flash
storage space.

These changes enhance mdmfs(8) so that it accepts two new values for the
'md-device' arg: 'tmpfs' and 'auto'. With tmpfs, the program always uses
tmpfs(5) (and fails if it's not available). With 'auto' the program prefers
tmpfs, but falls back to using md(4) if tmpfs isn't available. It also
handles the -s <size> argument so that the mdconfig interpetation of
unsuffixed numbers applies when tmpfs is used as well, so that existing user
config keeps working after a switch to tmpfs.

A new rc setting, mfs_type, is added to etc/defaults/rc.conf to let users
force the use of tmpfs or md; the default value is "auto".

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12301
2017-09-29 22:13:26 +00:00
bin Ammend bin/cat/cat.c so the output is the same aside 2017-09-21 14:14:49 +00:00
cddl MFV r323535: 8585 improve batching done in zil_commit() 2017-09-26 11:04:08 +00:00
contrib Fix the return value from _Unwind_Backtrace() on arm. 2017-09-25 23:50:10 +00:00
crypto Upgrade to OpenSSH 7.5p1. 2017-08-04 12:57:24 +00:00
etc Enhance mdmfs(8) to work with tmpfs(5). 2017-09-29 22:13:26 +00:00
gnu Remove redundant source and object files. 2017-09-09 13:18:32 +00:00
include An MMC/SD/SDIO stack using CAM 2017-07-09 16:57:24 +00:00
kerberos5 Replace the include path using CURDIR with KRB5DIR. This is consistent 2017-08-21 12:42:05 +00:00
lib __setrunelocale: Fix asprintf(3) failure not returning an error. 2017-09-29 16:30:50 +00:00
libexec Deorbit catman. The tradeoff of disk for performance has long since tipped 2017-09-13 16:35:16 +00:00
release Revert r323812 from release/tools/arm.subr, which has broken the 2017-09-22 14:34:27 +00:00
rescue DIRDEPS_BUILD: Update dependencies. 2017-05-09 01:48:23 +00:00
sbin Enhance mdmfs(8) to work with tmpfs(5). 2017-09-29 22:13:26 +00:00
secure Convert traditional ${MK_TESTS} conditional idiom for including test 2017-08-02 08:35:51 +00:00
share Compile loader as Little-Endian on PPC64/POWER8 2017-09-29 06:36:19 +00:00
sys aesni(4): Fix GCC build 2017-09-29 19:56:09 +00:00
targets Whack procctl(8) 2017-09-27 01:03:00 +00:00
tests aesni(4): Add support for x86 SHA intrinsics 2017-09-26 23:12:32 +00:00
tools Fix regression from r323855. The EXIT trap now isn't cleared, so upon 2017-09-26 21:54:19 +00:00
usr.bin man(1): silent the output of mandoc when testing 2017-09-29 07:44:48 +00:00
usr.sbin Alike to ZFS disable cache flush after first ENOTSUP error. 2017-09-28 15:58:41 +00:00
.arcconfig callsign isn't required anymore 2016-09-29 06:19:45 +00:00
.arclint phabricator related changes: 2015-04-20 20:33:22 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Bump copyright year. 2016-12-31 12:41:42 +00:00
LOCKS
MAINTAINERS Add asomers as a pjdfstest co-maintainer per the project status change 2017-06-28 09:25:15 +00:00
Makefile Quote ${MAKE} when passing in env in case it contains spaces. 2017-08-16 17:54:24 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Do not print error when running make delete-old on system 2017-09-26 05:33:15 +00:00
Makefile.libcompat Honor NO_RTLD for rtld-elf, similar to what's done in libexec/Makefile, with 2017-08-17 20:15:20 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Remove manpage entries about crshared(9) 2017-09-27 01:12:47 +00:00
README Vendor import of OpenSSH 7.5p1. 2017-08-03 10:10:20 +00:00
README.md Remove hard line breaks from README.md 2017-03-01 15:39:58 +00:00
UPDATING Fix language used in the r322923. 2017-09-17 10:28:45 +00:00

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