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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
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