From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 29 11:53:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13875 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.ny.otec.com (bright.ny.otec.com [209.3.16.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13754 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.ny.otec.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA00890 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:52:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.ny.otec.com: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:52:55 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.ny.otec.com To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: looking for ram file system (NOT MFS) In-Reply-To: <199806291628.LAA10456@horton.iaces.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well if someone would re-do mfs it would be cool :) from what the 4.4 book says it's not exaclty the model of efficiency something about redundant memory to memory copies and the fact that it's a FFS in memory which makes sense from a certain elegancy point of code reuse, but not optimization for the media type (ie. virtual cylinders in memory :) ) of course i'm speaking from my ass as i haven't really looked if it has been rehauled. :) -Alfred On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Ron G. Minnich said: > > I'm looking for something like a ram file system for some work i'm doing. > > It needs to support ram-based lookup, mkdir, rmdir, etc. It needs to be > > BSD or GPL copyright, and run under current. Any pointers appreciated. > > mfs > > > -- > You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for > success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits > or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume > party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World. > -- Dave Barry, "How to Dress for Real Success" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message