> > Alex Hornung <[email protected]> added the comment: > > I suggest we actually move away from mfs and use tmpfs instead. This would > involve (at least) the following steps: > - Change the fstab for the nrelease magic to use tmpfs, but keeping the > same > options in use (i.e. size [note that mfs' size is in sectors, iirc]) > - Probably expand mount_tmpfs to use FSCopy & FSPaste with an optional > parameter > '-C', as with mount_mfs, as long as we don't have a working unionfs. > FSCopy and > FSPaste can be found in newfs/fscopy.c. An alternative to this would be > finally > fixing unionfs, but that's a more complicated issue. > - Test a few installations to see if everything still works as expected > with the > new tmpfs magic. This would ideally include both x86 and x86_64. > > Cheers, > Alex Hornung
This might be slightly inaccurate, but is it possible currently, when using LiveCD, to write to the memory filesystem? (either mfs or tmpfs). It would be great. I often had a need in the past to create temporary files. Petr
