From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 20 20:09:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00916 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 20:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from m2.findmail.com (m2.findmail.com [209.185.96.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA00864 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 20:09:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brianfeldman@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 29505 invoked by uid 505); 21 May 1998 03:07:20 -0000 Date: 21 May 1998 03:07:20 -0000 Message-ID: <19980521030720.29504.qmail@m2.findmail.com> From: "Brian Feldman" Subject: Re: What do you think about this addition to rc{. In-Reply-To: <22610.895711846@time.cdrom.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG RTFM :) --> snip snip --> tempt to unmount its corresponding file system. The parameters to mount_mfs are the same as those to newfs. If the -T flag is specified (see below), the special file is unused. Otherwise, it is only used to read the disk label which provides a set of configuration parameters for the memory based file system. The special file is typically that of the > Uh... Why not just add a single line to /etc/fstab which does the > same thing? To say that this solution is unbelievably baroque and > unnecessary would be charitable. :-) > > - Jordan > > > The purpouse of these two additions is to add the ability to configure the > > system automatically to use MFS as the /tmp file system. This makes sense > > after reading the white paper on MFS, and its use as a /tmp filesystem, > > and looking at rc(5) which already had a tmp clearing function. It seemed > > obvious to add the following: > > > > to rc: > > if [ "X${mfs_tmp_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then > > if [ X${mfs_tmp_type} != X ]; then > > mount_mfs -T ${mfs_tmp_type} mfs /tmp > > else > > echo "disktab(5)-compliant mfs type not given for /tmp" > > fi > > fi > > > > to rc.conf: > > mfs_tmp_enable="NO" # mount an mfs for /tmp > > mfs_tmp_type="" # disktab(5) type for /tmp > > > > Comments? Should we merge this, or is it useful to only myself? > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > =-= > > my->name = "Brian Feldman"; > > my->email[0] = "brianfeldman@hotmail.com"; > > my->email[1] = "green@feldman.dyn.ml.org"; > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > =-= > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message