ramdisk for FreeBSD 4.8
Paul Civati
paul at xciv.org
Fri Jan 23 13:17:07 GMT 2004
Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get a ram disk setup on my 4.8 system. I'm trying to
> replicate the tmpfs filesystem on GNU/Linux, but from what I can see
> FreeBSD ramdisks are a fixed size.
I *think* you're confusing two different things here?
A RAM disk is a memory based file system, and what you've done below is
try to build a file system on a file, which can be done, but is something
different.
If you simply want a tmpfs style /tmp file system that is memory based then
use the mfs file system by adding a fstab entry something like this:
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/ar0s1b /tmp mfs rw,nosuid,-s=131068
and then mount /tmp, adjust the -s flag for the size (which is 512byte blocks).
Obviously adjust the actual disk/swap device for one that matches the disk
on your system.
> anyway I've done a small one (!) with the following..
>
> 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=newimage bs=1k count=5k
> 2) vnconfig -s labels -c vn0 newimage
> 3) disklabel -r -w vn0 auto
Normally, if you use vnconfig, and from my notes, you'd need to do next:
4) disklabel -e vn0
[ duplicate (c:) to another partition (a:) and adjust letter/fstype ]
5) newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 -U /dev/vn0a
6) mount /dev/vn0a /mnt
> 5) dd if=newimage of=/dev/md0
> 6) mount /dev/md0c /mnt
>
> anyway the thing is, do I need to do item 5 and 6 on the list above when
> rebooting, or can I rely on /etc/fstab to mount on boot?
Never used the md device myself, so I can't say how you would use it.
-Paul-
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