From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 11:41:18 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 381FD37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:41:16 -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 f2CJfXV54960 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:41:33 +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 11:38:21 PST." <20010312113821.A21989@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:41:33 +0100 Message-ID: <54958.984426093@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010312113821.A21989@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:27:54PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >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... > >>From a user's stand point, it acts just like the old MFS when used to >create a swap backed /tmp. That's like saying that a skateboard acts like a truck when you put a parcel on it :-) -- 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