From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 19:18:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11674 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:18:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ratz.ficnet.net (ratz.ficnet.net [202.145.136.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11664 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:18:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from donnylee@usa.net) Received: from usa.net (as6po81.ht.ficnet.net.tw [202.145.175.209]) by ratz.ficnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA29294; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:18:20 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <36772842.FDA3FD4E@usa.net> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:25:54 +0800 From: Donny Lee X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does it mean MFS ? References: <199812151800.KAA08793@pau-amma.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Wolfskill wrote: > "MFS" is "Memory File System" -- a file system that resides in memory. > As such, it does not persist across a reboot (though it may, and often > is, re-created at reboot, when /etc/rc is running). > I tend to mount /tmp on an MFS, for example; this also obviates the need > to clear /tmp on reboot. Can one specify the size, say 4mb, to a MFS to mount? I've enabled the MFS options in my 3.0 kernel, but find no way to mount. -- // Donny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message