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From: David Marshall <dmarshall@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Best Way to Mount a File-Backed Memory Disk at Boot-Time?
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FYI, it is a "convenient" property of mount_mfs that it will do a
newfs on your file-backed memory store upon mounting it.  I understand
that a new parameter has been added in -CURRENT recently to have it
preserve the contents of the file-backed memory disk.

Caveat mounter!


On 10/9/05, Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> wrote:
> At 06:16 PM 10/9/2005, David Marshall wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've got a system with a file-backed memory disk that needs to be run
> >through mdconfig and then mounted at boot-time?  What's the best way
> >to do this?
> >
> >Is putting a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d the best?
>
> make an entry in fstab that looks something like:
>
> md /mount/point mfs rw,-F/path/to/backing/store 0 0
>
> -Glenn
>
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> >TIA!
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