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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:13:33 -0700
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Using TMPFS for /tmp and /var/run?
Message-ID:  <20120329201333.GI1709@albert.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F74C0E5.6050102@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:07:01PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> ...
> Aren't MDMFS backed filesystems of static size? And haven't they to be
> created first before they can be used? Using TMPFS seems toi be a more
> convenient way to me - dynamical (?), using a fstab entry for convenience.

One may create a swap-backed mfs; this is what I used to do for /tmp
before I started using tmpfs.

(See the "tmpmfs" line (and related lines) in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.)

>...

Peace,
david
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David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
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