Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:21:28 -0500 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> Cc: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@www.get-linux.org> Subject: Re: ramdisk?? Message-ID: <20030609132128.A86366@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030609181736.GM61917@pun.isi.edu>; from faber@ISI.EDU on Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:17:37AM -0700 References: <23893.209.236.210.66.1055178986.squirrel@mail.romero3000.com> <20030609180452.GJ61917@pun.isi.edu> <20030609181132.GC85429@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030609131418.A85608@FreeBSD.org> <20030609181736.GM61917@pun.isi.edu>
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* Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> [ Date: 2003-06-09 ] [ w.r.t. Re: ramdisk?? ] > 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. It uses the md(4) driver in CURRENT. See the mdmfs(8) manpage. -- juli mallett. email: jmallett@freebsd.org; efnet: juli;
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