From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 25 18:50:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA24116 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 18:50:06 -0800 Received: from easynet.com (easyr.easynet.net [198.67.38.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA24103 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 18:49:47 -0800 Received: by easynet.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0rsiEl-000rbvC; Sat, 25 Mar 95 18:39 WET Message-Id: From: brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger) Subject: Re: /tmp To: jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au (Lucas James) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 18:39:31 -0800 (PST) Cc: charly@Fachschaften.TU-Muenchen.DE, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Lucas James" at Mar 25, 95 05:44:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 731 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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