in /etc/fstab to get a memory disk:
md /tmp mfs rw,-s8m,noatime 2 2
Back when mdmfs was created, there was vague discussion about doing this, but
it never materialized.
Reminded by: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
of an argument name collision with -O, use -v, and default to whatever
the newfs default is for the platform (generally, UFS1). This is
required to support diskless workstations that use UFS2 for their
mdmfs file systems.
Reviewed by: dd, bmah
Approved by: re (bmah)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
name is "mount_mfs" or "mfs". Previously, the condition was that
the program name must start with "mount_", but this both missed
the case where mount(8) invokes mdmfs with argv[0] = "mfs", and it
included cases such as "mount_md" where compatibility is not
required.
Reviewed by: dd
default if the executable is named (called as) "mount_*", or can be
enabled with the -C option. This allows users to leave their old
fstab entires unchanged (modulo symlink'ing mdmfs to mount(md|mfs))
and have things behave the way they should (by emulating mount_mfs
silliness), while still allowing mdmfs to be used as a generic
make-an-md-and-mount-it type thing.
Right now, the only effects of this option is to set the mount-point
mode to 01777 as if "-p 1777" was given, and to complain about getting
command-line options that mount_mfs didn't take (e.g., -X, -L, et al).
The latter is mostly to try to catch operator errors.
Also implement -U, which turns on soft-updates. It's redundant (since
softdep is the default), but implement it anyway for compatibility.