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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.1 Memory File System
Date: 6 Aug 1996 15:31:38 GMT
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chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) wrote:

> > mount -t mfs /dev/sd<n>b /mount-point
> >
> > Where <n> is the number of the disk on which your swap partition
> > resides. ...
> 
> Why this physical disk?
> Until now I believed the memory file system being kind of ram-disk.

Nope, it's a virtual memory disk, i.e. its contents is backed by
paging space.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j