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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!news.mtu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <368aid$sg9@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <CwpuyJ.2oA@usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu 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