From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 3 20:44:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from paradox.nexuslabs.com (cc718001-a.vron1.nj.home.com [24.11.70.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80D615279; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:44:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com) Received: from localhost (cyouse@localhost) by paradox.nexuslabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA83514; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:42:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:42:32 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Youse To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tmpfs .. ? In-Reply-To: <199912030413.UAA04264@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tmpfs may or may not be a UFS image stored in swap. I have a strong suspicion that it's not. MFS *is* a UFS image in memory (backed by swap, of course). As such, it is not nearly as efficient as it could be for /tmp purposes. Chuck On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Has anyone toyed with the idea of implementing a swap-based filesystem > > similar to Sun's tmpfs? > > Like, oh, MFS maybe? > > Try 'man -k mfs'. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message