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 -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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