Re: Ramdisk support

Aditya Godbole wrote:
Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd?

Sure. To mount a 200 MB swap-backed memory filesystem on
/tmp, add this lie to /etc/fstab:

md /tmp mfs rw,async,nosuid,-s200m,-m0 0 0

What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram?

You mean a diskless setup? I think there's a detailed
description of diskless setups in the FreeBSD Handbook.
You might also want to look at the diskless(8) manpage.

Best regards
Oliver

PS: Such questions are more appropriate for the freebsd-
questions list. They're not really "hacker" questions.

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