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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:17:37 -0700
From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:14:18PM -0500, Juli Mallett wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:04:52AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ted Faber seemed to write:
> > I mount a swap backed fs (which I what I suspect you want) with:
> 
> Or if you don't need a disklabel and all that, you could just
> look at using mount_mfs and fstab entries outright.  See the
> appropriate manual pages.

I used to use mfs, but I think that the vn hack is a more memory
efficient and doesn't leave a process hanging around (which mfs used
to).

If that's no longer true, I'd love to hear it.

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