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TMPFS(5) File Formats Manual TMPFS(5) NAME tmpfs -- efficient memory file system SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: options TMPFS Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): tmpfs_load="YES" DESCRIPTION The tmpfs driver will permit the FreeBSD kernel to access tmpfs file systems. OPTIONS The following options are available when mounting tmpfs file systems: gid root group id. uid root user id. mode permissions in octal format. inodes maximum number of inodes. size maximum size (in bytes) for the file system. EXAMPLES To mount a tmpfs memory file system: mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp SEE ALSO nmount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8) HISTORY The tmpfs driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0. AUTHORS The tmpfs kernel implementation was written by Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@NetBSD.org> as a Google SoC project. Rohit Jalan and others ported it from NetBSD to FreeBSD. This manual page was written by Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>. BUGS The tmpfs kernel implementation is currently considered as an experi- mental feature. Some file system mount time options are not well sup- ported. FreeBSD 8.2 June 12, 2008 TMPFS(5)
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