Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Memory disk "a la mfsroot"? Message-ID: <4B741E56.8010002@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B7419F5.7050602@pldrouin.net> References: <4B7419F5.7050602@pldrouin.net>
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On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a
> memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for
> is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual
> file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the
> file to the memory disk, but I am looking for a solution that can be
> configured via fstab.
Yes. See mdconfig(8) -- there are examples in there of exactly what you
want to do.
Cheers,
Matthew
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