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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.tut.fi!korppi.cs.tut.fi!k125374 From: k125374@korppi.cs.tut.fi (Mika Kortelainen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.1 Memory File System Date: 7 Aug 1996 22:43:25 GMT Organization: Tampere University of Technology (CS) Lines: 10 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4ub66d$g6n@peippo.cs.tut.fi> References: <4ts8g2$n92@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com> <4u36as$gbs@colwyn.owl.de> <6EHUjvqZo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> <4u7ogq$g7h@innocence.interface-business.de> <4u877j$dml@peippo.cs.tut.fi> <uivavldw7.fsf@ppe.bb-data.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: korppi.cs.tut.fi NNTP-Posting-User: k125374 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) mib@ppe.bb-data.de writes: >It is a RAM disk as long as enough RAM is available. If memory becomes >sparse, mfs is paged just as everything else is. So you get the best >of both worlds: speed and flexibility. Oh, then it works just like I had previously thought. Probably I just misunderstood an earlier posting... Mika Kortelainen