From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 11:27:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4073237B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2CJRsV54689 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:27:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-backed md-based /tmp to replace mfs-based one In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:24:42 PST." <20010312112442.C21123@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:27:54 +0100 Message-ID: <54687.984425274@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010312112442.C21123@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:12:35AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >> A while ago someone suggested a /etc/md.conf and an mdon(1) similar to >> swapon(1). > >Putting it in terms of this analogy make this approach sound quite >reasonable. I can fully support this approach, or if people want to add a config file to mdconfig(8) I can live with that as well. >> and avoids the mount_mdfs criticism leveled by phk >> that md is not an fs (which is true enough). > >If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, .... Sorry David, but it there is nothing duck-like about at all... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message