On 29 August 2014 13:44, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 01:39:57PM +0200, Mike Belopuhov wrote: >> 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... >> > > so the diff posted was correct and should be committed? > jmc >
yes, i believe so. OK mikeb
