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> Yes, it ought to be a filesystem, but until struct buf is relieved of it's
> intimate knowledge about disks, it is not possible to do it using the
> UFS layer, which makes it a pointless excercise in cut&paste to write a
> proper TMPFS.

Yes, well, this is sort of what the current UBC (Unified Buffer Cache) spasm
in NetBSD is about....




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