On 2006/10/04 18:35, T. Valent wrote: > I am still not sure if MFS helps me. My project is an embedded system > that does not have a swap. I'm pretty sure the system will not run out > of memory. So am I supposed to create the MFS on swap though I don't > have any?
Yes, this is fine. You don't need to have an actual swap partition, you can specify the keyword 'swap' instead. I've had it running like this on embedded systems for a few years. > Anyway, I agree with you here that I maybe should have taken a closer > look at MFS. I just didn't take it into consideration because I have > worked with rdconfig since OpenBSD 3.2 without problems. There's not much crosslinking in the manual between them, I wonder whether rd(4) should also reference mount_mfs(8) or whether that's likely to cause confusion. > > Doesn't the fact that you have to build a custom kernel to use > > it suggest that you should maybe look elsewhere? > > In case you meant this as a real question: No. I'm quite used to > building custom kernels for my purposes. There are limited situations where it's needed with OpenBSD, anywhere you're going that requires it is less well-charted territory than normal. Not necessarily bad, but given a choice between two ways to do things, one which is more widely used (and therefore better-tested), assuming both get the job done, I know which I usually choose.
