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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 10:24:24 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Alexander Tatmaniants <tat@Spline.NET>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@feldman.dyn.ml.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What do you think about this addition to rc{.conf}(5)?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980521102356.1456C-100000@nt5.spline.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520182228.14079A-100000@localhost>

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I always do it in /etc/fstab file as FAQ or handbook says.                      

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Brian Feldman wrote:

> 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?
> 
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