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Date:      Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:24:20 +0400
From:      Igor Pokrovsky <ip@doom.homeunix.org>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Relative performance of swap-backed MFS vs. regular UFS?
Message-ID:  <20041023182420.GA19119@doom.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <417A9F1E.8060104@gamersimpact.com>
References:  <20041022223238.GA12502@tikitechnologies.com> <20041023180638.GA19033@doom.homeunix.org> <417A9F1E.8060104@gamersimpact.com>

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On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 01:12:46PM -0500, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> >
> >You can also use md(4). In my case I use it for /tmp.
> >
> MFS is the same thing as md(4). mfs = Memory File System, md = Memory 
> Disk. Difference is only in the name.

I thought mfs is allocated from virtual memory, while md - directly from RAM.
Am I wrong?

-ip

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