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Date:      Sat, 24 Feb 2001 16:08:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Large MFS on NFS-swap?
Message-ID:  <15000.8884.6165.759008@trooper.velocet.net>

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We have an application which is precompiled, for linux, and stupid.
It uses (at times large) scratch files.  We want to run this on our
diskless machines (CPU farm) to cut the per-cpu cost of the
computation ($200/drive starts getting significant at a few hundred
machines).

Anyways, I've tried:

[1:26:2025]root@spitfire:/usr/u/dgilbert>  mount_mfs -T test -s 2097152 -o nosuid,nodev /dev/null /mnt
[1:27:2026]root@spitfire:/usr/u/dgilbert> df -k
Filesystem                     1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
192.168.255.49:/raid/clients/4 124545452 87451588 27130228    76%    /
procfs                                 4        4        0   100%    /proc
mfs:57939                         507755        1   467134     0%    /mnt
[1:28:2027]root@spitfire:/usr/u/dgilbert> tail -5 /etc/disktab 
test|test disk|\
        :ty=removable:dt=SCSI:se#512:nt#1:ns#31:nc#18600:ts#1:rm#4800:\
        :pc#20971520:oc#0:\
        :pa#20971520:oa#0:ta=4.2BSD:ba#4096:fa#512:

The goal is to have about 2 gig of filesystem available for these
(admittedly stupid) scratch files.

Dave.

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