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Date:      Sat, 25 Mar 1995 18:39:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger)
To:        jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au (Lucas James)
Cc:        charly@Fachschaften.TU-Muenchen.DE, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /tmp
Message-ID:  <m0rsiEl-000rbvC@easynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950325174234.170D-100000@ldjpc.apana.org.au> from "Lucas James" at Mar 25, 95 05:44:18 pm

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> On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Jan (Charly) Conrad wrote:
> > Is ist possible to use mfs for tmp?

yes.

> > 	mount(8) states something like
> > 		mount -t mfs -o -N,-s=4000 /dev/sd0b /tmp
> > 	(why the -N switch??)
> > 	How large should /tmp be?

As big as it needs to be. 8-)

> > 	Is mfs wortwhile on a machine with 8MB memory??

I read elsewhere that it is not.

> > 	Is it stable??
> 	Is it usable?
> 

I use it on all my machines with 16MB or more RAM.

> root@ldjpc# mount -t mfs -o -N,-s=4000 /dev/wd0b /mnt
> Mar 25 17:42:02 ldjpc mfs: /mnt: Operation not supported by device
> Lucas James
> jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au

add 'options MFS' to your kernel config, reconfig, rebuild, install,
reboot.

Brian Litzinger
brian@easynet.com



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