On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> This is more out of curiousity than criticism;
>
> ..but why not just make a charecter device that corresponds to a chunk
> of VM and simply run newfs on that?
>
> You would still have a relatively proven filesystem (like FFS) and you
> also get the "benefits" of having it memory resident. Perhaps certain
> properties of FFS would be less than ideal for this, but you get the idea.
>
> Wouldn't this have the same problems as mfs but still avoid existing as a
> seperate filesystem (and thus, a seperate code base)?
This avoids certain MFS problems, yes. Please see vnconfig(8) =)
> -MB
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