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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RAMDISK possible??
Date: 23 Dec 1995 14:42:11 GMT
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y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus) writes:

> : Is it possible to make a ramdisk and then mount it? I have a small-time 
> : web server that I want serving documents coming from a ramdisk.
> 
> man mfs

Yet another hint: MFS is one of the file systems that must be compiled
static, i.e. you need ``options MFS'' in your kernel config file.
This is _not_ in there by default.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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