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From: z thompson <cublai@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Mounting MFS? 
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:24:50 -0700
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Could someone shed some light on what the advantages are of mounting an 
MFS RAM disk on /tmp?  I was thumbing through the kernel chapter in "The
Complete FreeBSD" where Lehey talks about mounting your swap partition as a MFS
on /tmp.  Specifically he says that this will be "useful if you have a lot of
swap space that you want to take advantage of[...]"  What I don't understand is
how or why your swap space will be more useful mounted as a mfs as opposed to
not? 

Thanks for any elucidation,
Zach Thompson

	
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