Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 21:35:35 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Paulo Menezes <paulo@isr.uc.pt> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_mfs Message-ID: <9955.849904535@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Dec 1996 20:23:42 GMT." <Pine.SUN.3.95.961206202018.314A-100000@pioneer>
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>> What I do is this: >> >> server:/somewhere/machine/root mounted ro on / >> server:/somewhere/machine/usr mounted ro on /usr >> server:/somewhere/machine/`hostname -s`/var mounted rw on /var >> server:/somewhere/machine/`hostname -s`/etc mounted rw on /etc >> server:/somewhere/machine/`hostname -s`/tmp mounted rw on /tmp >> >Ok, that is a solution! But what about mfs? I would not like to create a >/var /etc /tmp for each of the machines. The real question is can mfs be >used to create an empty ram-disk rw for /tmp? Well, mfs has no real speed advantage over any "real" filesystem since we got the share VM/buffer code, so I generally avoid it. Remember that it isn't really a mfs but more like a swap-partition-fs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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