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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:36:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /tmp on a ramdisk?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007301634450.36725-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007301623320.44664-100000@bsd1.nyct.net>

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:

> This is more out of curiousity than criticism;
> 
> ..but why not just make a charecter device that corresponds to a chunk
> of VM and simply run newfs on that? 
> 
> You would still have a relatively proven filesystem (like FFS) and you
> also get the "benefits" of having it memory resident. Perhaps certain
> properties of FFS would be less than ideal for this, but you get the idea.
> 
> Wouldn't this have the same problems as mfs but still avoid existing as a
> seperate filesystem (and thus, a seperate code base)? 

This avoids certain MFS problems, yes.  Please see vnconfig(8) =)

> -MB

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