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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.
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