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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:44:19 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   mount_mfs & /tmp & diskless
Message-ID:  <199601051344.OAA01712@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de>

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is it possible to use mount_mfs _without_ the "special" argument ?

what i want is to mount_mfs my /tmp for a diskless FreeBSD xterminal for the
/tmp.X* files - but to use mount_mfs it seems i need a disk special device
(from the mount_mfs man-page):

  The special file is only used to read the disk label which provides a set of
  configuration parameters for the memory based file system. 

but i don't have any disk (diskless :-) thus the typical swap-partition entry
won't help - is there any trick to get a ~16 block (8k) /tmp mounted mount_mfs
using a diskless FreeBSD machine with / mounted ro with the diskless code ?

thanks in adavance - t

p.s.: this may lead to very simple FreeBSD xterminals
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  Perfection is reached, not when there is no  __||     thomas graichen
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