From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 13 22:17:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (24-168-203-47.wo.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C33837B407; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A.J.Caines@halplant.com) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A730A20F9; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:17:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:17:05 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: "Robert J. Adams" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large /dev/md0 ramdisk Message-ID: <20010814011705.D67874@hal9000.servehttp.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: "Robert J. Adams" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <078a01c12466$345dc830$7215fbd1@jason> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <078a01c12466$345dc830$7215fbd1@jason>; from radams@siscom.net on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:42:34PM -0400 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert, Please forgive me not answering your question, but just responding to an issue you've raised. > From what I've read, md is a better way of going than mfs. I have seen several references to md being preferred to mfs but have been unable to find any detailed comparison or evaluation. To what reference were you referring? I've also seen it suggested that mfs is to go away, leaving only md. For happy mfs users like myself who enjoy the convenience of a simple flexible fstab entry sufficing for memory backed non-persistent filesystems, that is of some concern. Perhaps someone on -hackers could provide a good pointer or give details. -Andrew- -- ______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message