on 28/05/2010 20:57 Dave Hayes said the following: > Clifton Royston <clift...@lava.net> writes: >> It sounds like what you really want is to load the contents of the >> specified file as a memory system? That's not part of mdconfig's >> repertoire, to the best of my recollection. > > So if, in /etc/loader.conf, I do this: > > rootfs_load="YES" > rootfs_type="mfs_root" > rootfs_name="/mfsboot" > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:md0" > > and /mfsboot comes from a bootable DVD, am I to assume that this mount > is under the same constraint? Specifically, this constraint is that the > /mfsboot file (and hence the DVD) will be read repeatedly if the system > is under memory pressure.
No. Contents of mfsboot is loaded into physical memory and always stays there. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
