Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 06:02:22 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfs & swap relationship Message-ID: <199702150502.GAA27639@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970214232948.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 14, 97 11:29:29 pm
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> > And can you make an mfs that's attached to a different partition? > > Of course. It's only a little hard to mount a MFS on a machine that > doesn't have any disk available at all. I've got patches in the queue > that allow using /dev/null as a template (in which case mount_mfs > invents some parameters, which is about the best it could do at all in > case swapping goes over NFS). you don't need patches if you create an entry in disktab and pass that name to mount_mfs. That's what I do for diskless machines, and it works just fine. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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