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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Creating mfs under FreeBSD
Date: 27 Sep 1994 05:28:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <CwpuyJ.2oA@usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil>,
Jeff Becklehimer <beck@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
>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

It's a `memory filesystem backed by swap', so this is in fact correct.

>named /ram rather than /tmp but got back an error message about operation not
>supported by device.

I think you need to recompile a kernel with `options	MFS' enabled.

						Jordan