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From: beck@nrlssc.navy.mil (Jeff Becklehimer)
Subject: Creating mfs under FreeBSD
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Hi all,

I running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and have decided that I would like to create a
mfs so that I can place some frequently accessed files there. After looking
at the mount man page I am a bit confused, one of the examples is

mount -t mfs -o nosuid,-N,-s=4000 /dev/wd0b /tmp

This looks like what I want to do but isn't /dev/wd0b the swap area on disk
and not in memory? Anyway, I said what the heck and tried it with a directory
named /ram rather than /tmp but got back an error message about operation not
supported by device.

So, how do I create a file system in memory?

Thanks.

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<A HREF="http://www7430.nrlssc.navy.mil/7430/people/beck.html"><em>Jeff Becklehimer</em></A>