From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 17:12:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA22941 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:12:45 -0700 Received: from alpha.misha.net (mbailey@misha.net [204.120.206.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA22934 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:12:44 -0700 Received: by alpha.misha.net (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id TAA06398; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 19:10:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 19:10:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Matthew Bailey To: David Greenman cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tmpfs? In-Reply-To: <199507050004.RAA11108@corbin.Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >Is there a way to do somehting similar to Sun's TMPFS where SWAP and RAM > >are mounted on /tmp instead of on a real filesystem this would make > >compiles that use the /tmp files very fast because they never have to > >leave ram to the drive unless there is a reason to Swap... > > We have an "MFS" memory filesystem that is often used for this purpose. > You'll gain a lot more by using the "-pipe" option with CC, however, as this > avoids the temporary files altogether. > > -DG > Yes and no... There are times where is requires temorary files when compiling. Mostly compilers other than "C" use it. If memfs can be used for this how do I go about setting it up? Thanks