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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: tmpfs?
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On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, CMU Mail Archive 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...

  How about the memory file system (mfs)?

  Should this be on "freebsd-questions"?

Tom