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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 1998 07:16:31 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: looking for ram file system (NOT MFS)
Message-ID:  <199806301216.HAA14519@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <13585.899201507@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jun 30, 1998 12:11:47 pm"

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In a previous message, Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> >I believe Poul-Henning Kamp was working on a mallocfs at some point..
> >
> >MFS is bad in that it doesn't allocate and release swap.  It'd be seriously
> >great to have something that could allocate and free pageable memory as
> >files were written and deleted.  MFS never releases swap space once the
> >mount_mfs process faults in an anon page.  Doing it seperately from UFS
> >would be a good start since it wouldn't be wasting time emulating a disk
> >structure.
> 
> Actually doing it separately from UFS would be a waste of time, but that
> is a different issue.
> 
> the mallocfs I wrote used the kernel malloc and was consequently limited
> to 20Mbyte and non-pageable.

This would be useful to me for my custom install script.

Paul.

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