Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> writes:
> Okay, but I'll wager that their default fstab does not mount /tmp as an MFS.
> That last bit is sort of the whole point.

On many, perhaps most, systems, it may not be _desirable_ to mount
/tmp as an MFS, and it's certainly not something that's desirable as
the default.

I don't know if you're familiar with the 4BSD-derived MFS
implementations, but:

Using an MFS will eat a certain amount of swap space, etc.  Eat, not
'borrow.'  It's not a SunOS-style mfs that "borrows" space from swap,
instead the mount_mfs process allocates a large chunk of space for the
FS, and that space acts just like malloc'd memory in any other process
would, and is freed only when the mfs is unmounted.



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