From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 3: 1:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E8337B404 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 03:01:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card4-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16RtFb-00060P-01; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:01:31 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16RtBz-00033N-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:57:47 +0000 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:57:47 +0000 From: Ceri To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfs filesystems Message-ID: <20020119105747.GB11503@rhadamanth> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri , Nathan Mace , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200201190537.AAA25756@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200201190537.AAA25756@uce55.uchaswv.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:35:00AM -0500, Nathan Mace wrote: > every example i can find conserning mfs filesystems, mounts the mfs > "partition" from the swap partition. is there a way to mount it from a > section of RAM instead of a section of swap? The mfs filesystem _is_held in RAM; the swap device is there so that the contents of RAM can be paged to disk should you get short on RAM. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message