Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:15:29 +0100 From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@engelschall.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mdmfs broken? Message-ID: <20030306101529.GA96078@engelschall.com>
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In article <20030306084707.GC13870@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> you wrote:
>> > What's the correct syntax in 5-CURRENT to have a memory disk for /tmp
>> > in your /etc/fstab?
>> > [...]
>>
>> Create a symlink:
>>
>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Feb 13 13:28 /sbin/mount_mfs -> mdmfs
>>
>> and use in /etc/fstab something like:
>>
>> md0 /tmp mfs rw,-s128m,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0
>
> Thanks! Any reason why there is no {sym,hard}link by default? The
> manpage even mentions the compat-behaviour:
>
> COMPATIBILITY
> Full compatibility is enabled with the -C flag, or by starting mdmfs with
> the name mount_mfs or mfs (as returned by getprogname(3)).
Perhaps because it's considered just a "compatibility" and not a
"standard" feature. I personally would like to see this symlink myself,
because without it is nearly impossible to conviniently create a memory
based /tmp on FreeBSD 5 anyway. Because doing all the individual steps
with mdconfig, newfs, etc. in something like /etc/rc.local is also not a
convinient solution. So, yes, I would vote for creating this symlink by
default.
Ralf S. Engelschall
rse@engelschall.com
www.engelschall.com
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