Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:44:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <XFMail.010127174423.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101271727280.20246-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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On 28-Jan-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
>>
>> On 27-Jan-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
>> >
>> > Hmm.,... though you may be right.... mfs didn't mount for me now... but
>> > that
>> > may be the usual userland<>kernel mismatch...
>>
>> One should use md(4) and mdconfig(8) rather than MFS nowadays anyways, which
>> does work with DEVFS.
>
> Uh, I don't think so. MFS should be fixed. With MFS you should be able to
> take
> advantage of VM. I don't think the same applies to md.
Hmm, md can do preloaded and malloc'd disks. It does replace the ability to
preload a memory-based filesystem, but I'm not sure it replaces using MFS on
/tmp unless you used a malloc disk to do that.
HISTORY
The md driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0 as a cleaner replacement for
the MFS functionality previously used in PicoBSD and in the FreeBSD in-
stallation process.
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