On 29 August 2014 08:19, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:
>
> is this correct? i'm not a user myself, but the text states that
> "special", for mount_mfs, is "typically that of the primary swap area".
> how would you even define the swap area without a disklabel?
>
> jmc
>
sort of yes. mount_mfs(8) says this:
[...] The special file is only used
to read the disk label which provides a set of configuration parameters
for the memory based file system. The special file is typically that of
the primary swap area, since that is where the file system will be backed
up when free memory gets low and the memory supporting the file system
has to be paged. If the keyword ``swap'' is used instead of a special
file name, default configuration parameters will be used. (This option
is useful when trying to use mount_mfs on a machine without any disks.)
in reality it fakes up a disklabel and proceeds. number of XXX's
around this code is also mildly amusing...
