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#! rnews 1227 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.aut.alcatel.at!atusc75!ladavac From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Questions about MFS and screen Date: 13 Sep 1995 14:34:00 GMT Organization: Alcatel Austria AG Lines: 20 Message-ID: <436q4o$398@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> References: <436ivb$99g@alpha.jpunix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: atusc75.aut.alcatel.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] John Perry (perry@alpha.jpunix.com) wrote: : -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- : Hello Everyone, : I have a couple of questions: : 1. What is a Memory Filesystem (MFS), along with the best way to configure : it in your kernel, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using MFS, : and what can you do with it once you have it? Think of it as ramdisk, and you will be (mostly, I hope) right. It is useful during installation and for preparing floppy images, for instance. I don't think that it is of any special use in normal operation of the system (at least I did not find any.) man mfs(4). /Alby