how to use the MFS ?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Jan 9 10:30:33 PST 2009


"PstreeM China" <pstreem at gmail.com> writes:

> i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX  is a good idea , and i whill test the
> methon unionfs.

Definitely benchmark against just using a native local filesystem,
though.  Taking away all of that memory that FreeBSD would otherwise use
for *caching* file data could well end up making your builds *slower*
with the MFS than they would have been without it.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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