From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 14 21:47:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA01982 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 21:47:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA01974 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 21:47:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id GAA27639; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 06:02:22 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199702150502.GAA27639@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: mfs & swap relationship To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 06:02:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "J Wunsch" at Feb 14, 97 11:29:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________