Memory disk "a la mfsroot"?

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:

> I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a
> memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for
> is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual
> file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the
> file to the memory disk, but I am looking for a solution that can be
> configured via fstab.

Yes.  See mdconfig(8) -- there are examples in there of exactly what you
want to do.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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