Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 13:03:47 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mfs & swap relationship Message-ID: <Mutt.19970215130347.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702150502.GAA27639@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Feb 15, 1997 06:02:22 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19970214232948.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199702150502.GAA27639@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I've got patches in the queue > > that allow using /dev/null as a template (in which case mount_mfs > > invents some parameters, which is about the best it could do at all in > > case swapping goes over NFS). > > you don't need patches if you create an entry in disktab and pass that > name to mount_mfs. That's what I do for diskless machines, and it works > just fine. Hmm, although this seems to be a crock as well as my version, perhaps we should stuff a generic `mfs' entry into /etc/disktab, and document its use in the EXAMPLES section. Can you send your version to me? (It will only make sense if you can override the actual size from the commandline.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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