From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 27 17:44:56 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6500D37B698; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:44:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp150.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.150]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0S1iUc00405; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:44:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Matthew Jacob Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Cc: Mikhail Teterin , Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message