Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:42:32 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Youse <cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tmpfs .. ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912032339390.83509-100000@paradox.nexuslabs.com> In-Reply-To: <199912030413.UAA04264@mass.cdrom.com>
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tmpfs may or may not be a UFS image stored in swap. I have a strong suspicion that it's not. MFS *is* a UFS image in memory (backed by swap, of course). As such, it is not nearly as efficient as it could be for /tmp purposes. Chuck On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Has anyone toyed with the idea of implementing a swap-based filesystem > > similar to Sun's tmpfs? > > Like, oh, MFS maybe? > > Try 'man -k mfs'. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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