From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 25 10:31:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681C037B54D for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4PI5lL21221; Thu, 25 May 2000 11:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:05:47 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Michael Lucas Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proper uses for MFS? Message-ID: <20000525110546.C28594@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200005251705.NAA67491@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200005251705.NAA67491@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 01:05:02PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Michael Lucas [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