From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 28 10:12:56 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BFA37B69C; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0SICXK14275; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:12:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Baldwin Cc: Matthew Jacob , Mikhail Teterin , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:44:23 PST." Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:12:33 +0100 Message-ID: <14273.980705553@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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