On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:53:45AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> dyoung@pobox.com wrote:
> 
> > Is there anywhere TMPFS cannot replace MFS, and work at least as well?
> > If not, is it ok if we begin to phase MFS out?
> 
> > I believe the only part of the system that depends on MFS is init(8).
> > If init(8) finds /dev/console missing, it creates /dev/ and runs MAKEDEV
> > in it.  I have attached a patch that makes init(8) use TMPFS, instead.
> 
> I think it's better to fallback to MFS if TMPFS mount fails on init(8).
> 
> Some ports don't have TMPFS by default (yet), and

That should be easy to fix ;-)  I didn't enable TMPFS on many platforms
because I left the task to their respective portmasters; there is no
technical reason to not enable it AFAICT.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@NetBSD.org>