From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 12:38:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B5D37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.riboflavin.net (dsl.75.91.networkiowa.com [209.234.75.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6035443E65 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:38:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@riboflavin.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.int.riboflavin.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.riboflavin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567606750D for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:39:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 165.206.209.230 ([165.206.209.230]) by imp.riboflavin.net (IMP) with HTTP for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:39:32 -0500 Message-ID: <1032550772.3d8b79748b94c@imp.riboflavin.net> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:39:32 -0500 From: "Marcus I. Ryan" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Creating large memory disks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 165.206.209.230 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I need to know how to create a large memory disk in FreeBSD 4.6x. I've figured out how to create a 10M malloc-backed disk, but I want a ramdrive more on the order of 128M. How can I do that? The md man page indicates it's possible, but talks about preloading it in loader.conf. However the reply from Terry Lambert to a similar request said it should be done after boot. Any tips or guides? The post I'm referring to is: http://spitfire.velocet.net/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2002-March/018270.html Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Marcus I. Ryan, marcus@riboflavin.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -- Matt Groening ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message