Aditya Godbole wrote: > Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd?
Sure. To mount a 200 MB swap-backed memory filesystem on /tmp, add this lie to /etc/fstab: md /tmp mfs rw,async,nosuid,-s200m,-m0 0 0 > What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram? You mean a diskless setup? I think there's a detailed description of diskless setups in the FreeBSD Handbook. You might also want to look at the diskless(8) manpage. Best regards Oliver PS: Such questions are more appropriate for the freebsd- questions list. They're not really "hacker" questions. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "The scanf() function is a large and complex beast that often does something almost but not quite entirely unlike what you desired." -- Chris Torek _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
