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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:47:12 -0500
From:      Jon Brawn <jon@brawn.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: Pre-filled RAM disk.
Message-ID:  <7CD79E48-F62E-46CC-896F-A9C87047B85D@brawn.org>
In-Reply-To: <1505964913.73082.65.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Sep 20, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 21:23 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Jon Brawn <jon@brawn.org> wrote:
>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> Wotcha!
>>>>=20
>>>> <chomp>
>>>> So, what does FreeBSD have to offer in the way of ramdisk
>>>> functionality?
>>>>=20
>>> Yes.
>>>=20
>>> See MD_ROOT and friends.
>>>=20
>> The MFS_IMAGE kernel option has replaced this.
>>=20
>> Warner
>=20
> And the documentation (such as it is) for MFS_IMAGE is in the md(4)
> manpage.  In a nutshell, it's a mechanism that lets you compile an
> existing filesystem image directly into the kernel and it is mounted =
as
> a memory filesystem at boot time.  Hopefully being contained within =
the
> kernel will make the problem of loading it at a fixed physical address
> go away for you.
>=20
> -- Ian
>=20

I really need to bring more of my work problems to this list, obviously. =
Thanks folks!

Jon.=



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