From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 16:02:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DAF16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:02:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.adventuras.no (mail.adventuras.no [194.63.250.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8F543D39 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:02:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no) Received: from mail.adventuras.no (seven [127.0.0.1]) by mail.adventuras.no (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1OG20vH010094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:02:00 +0100 Received: (from apache@localhost) by mail.adventuras.no (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j1OG209n010092; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:02:00 +0100 Received: from 213.236.228.129 (SquirrelMail authenticated user lars) by mail.adventuras.no with HTTP; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:02:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <61266.213.236.228.129.1109260920.squirrel@mail.adventuras.no> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:02:00 +0100 (CET) From: "Lars Kristiansen" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Adventuras: du kan filtrere etter AdvSpamScore over 5-10 X-Adventuras-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.999, required 7, autolearn=not spam, AWL -1.40, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no Subject: Re: Cleaning /tmp on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:02:21 -0000 > Alternatively, is there something similar to tmpfs from Linux > available on FreeBSD? I've heard about mfs but it statically > allocates memory from the VM, I'd prefer if allocation was done only > as needed on demand. Found these: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?41E01905.3040200 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?45044.1105365790 So swap backed memory disks only swaps to disk when necessary. Wish that could have been mentioned in the handbook or man-pages. Should I try to PR that? Someone more knowledgeable will do it I hope :-) -- Hilsen Lars