* Michael Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000525 10:40] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing an article on Memory File System, just because I think
> it's massively cool.
>
> We had a thread some time ago on why MFS wasn't useful for certain
> applications. I searched through the mail archives, and found lots of things MFS
>wouldn't be right for, but not much of the other way around.
>
> What are some good, reasonable use for MFS nowadays?
Providing local space when there's no disk.
Providing a "don't care" partition where even though there's high
amounts of writing you'll newfs it at reboot anyway.
Our installer. :)
However with softupdates and the shared vm/buffercache MFS is less
useful nowadays.
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