Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:12:33 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <14273.980705553@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:44:23 PST." <XFMail.010127174423.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <XFMail.010127174423.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: > >On 28-Jan-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: >> >>> >>> On 27-Jan-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: >>> > >>> > Hmm.,... though you may be right.... mfs didn't mount for me now... but >>> > that >>> > may be the usual userland<>kernel mismatch... >>> >>> One should use md(4) and mdconfig(8) rather than MFS nowadays anyways, which >>> does work with DEVFS. >> >> Uh, I don't think so. MFS should be fixed. With MFS you should be able to >> take >> advantage of VM. I don't think the same applies to md. > >Hmm, md can do preloaded and malloc'd disks. It does replace the ability to >preload a memory-based filesystem, but I'm not sure it replaces using MFS on >/tmp unless you used a malloc disk to do that. I have not had time to update md(4), see mdconfig(8) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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