Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:05:47 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proper uses for MFS? Message-ID: <20000525110546.C28594@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200005251705.NAA67491@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 01:05:02PM -0400 References: <200005251705.NAA67491@blackhelicopters.org>
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* Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> [000525 10:40] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm writing an article on Memory File System, just because I think > it's massively cool. > > We had a thread some time ago on why MFS wasn't useful for certain > applications. I searched through the mail archives, and found lots of things MFS wouldn't be right for, but not much of the other way around. > > What are some good, reasonable use for MFS nowadays? Providing local space when there's no disk. Providing a "don't care" partition where even though there's high amounts of writing you'll newfs it at reboot anyway. Our installer. :) However with softupdates and the shared vm/buffercache MFS is less useful nowadays. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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