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Using Memory File Systems In BSD
by by writes "In O'Reillynet's Big Scary Daemons column, Michael Lucas explains how to effectively use memory file systems. MFSes are especially useful in diskless workstations. You can even create a MFS larger than physical memory and BSD will use swap space when needed."
Hee, hee! It's not quite at dumb as it first sounds. MFS is a useful thing, but setting it up is not the easiest thing in the world. That's why this is not an article announcing the obvious, that BSD can do ramdisks. Instead it's an article pointing to a HOWTO. Big difference.
/. to be a news site. I get the impression that it's a discussion board instead. Don't know why I feel this way...
Oh, and I don't consider
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