From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 10 5:11:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5C837B66D for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 05:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA02758; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:10:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:10:45 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Nathaniel G H Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFS Message-ID: <20001010081045.A2665@blackhelicopters.org> References: <200010100112.SAA08859@mail7.bigmailbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200010100112.SAA08859@mail7.bigmailbox.com>; from bsd_appliance@bemail.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:12:16PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:12:16PM -0700, Nathaniel G H wrote: > > Can one of you help me with a quick overview of what has happened > > with the Memory File System since 4.4BSD to the FreeBSD that exists > > today? > > Hi, > > I've never used it myself, but I read an article about it on > the O'Reilly network; hold on a sec while I look it up.... > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/371 > > I've been considering using this for various purposes, since > it'll probably speed up some things a great deal. Please let > me know how it works for you... If you want a memory-backed filesystem in FreeBSD, use md(4). You'll be happier with the results. MFS is good if you want a memory-backed filesystem that runs on all 4.4BSD-based stuff. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message