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MDMFS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MDMFS(8) NAME mdmfs, mount_mfs -- configure and mount an in-memory file system using the md(4) driver SYNOPSIS mdmfs [-DLlMNSUX] [-a maxcontig] [-b block-size] [-c cylinders] [-d rotdelay] [-e maxbpg] [-F file] [-f frag-size] [-i bytes] [-m percent-free] [-n rotational-positions] [-O optimization] [-o mount-options] [-p permissions] [-s size] [-v version] [-w user:group] md-device mount-point mdmfs -C [-lNU] [-a maxcontig] [-b block-size] [-c cylinders] [-d rotdelay] [-e maxbpg] [-F file] [-f frag-size] [-i bytes] [-m percent-free] [-n rotational-positions] [-O optimization] [-o mount-options] [-s size] [-v version] md-device mount-point DESCRIPTION The mdmfs utility is designed to be a work-alike and look-alike of the deprecated mount_mfs(8). The end result is essentially the same, but is accomplished in a completely different way. The mdmfs utility configures an md(4) disk using mdconfig(8), puts a UFS file system on it using newfs(8), and mounts it using mount(8). All the command line options are passed to the appropriate program at the appropriate stage in order to achieve the desired effect. By default, mdmfs creates a swap-based (MD_SWAP) disk with soft-updates enabled and mounts it on mount-point. It uses the md(4) device specified by md-device. If md-device is `md' (no unit number), it will use md(4)'s auto-unit feature to automatically select an unused device. Unless oth- erwise specified with one of the options below, it uses the default argu- ments to all the helper programs. The following options are available. Where possible, the option letter matches the one used by mount_mfs(8) for the same thing. -a maxcontig Specify the maximum number of contiguous blocks that will be laid out before forcing a rotational delay (see the -d option). -b block-size The block size of the file system, in bytes. -C Enable full compatibility mode with mount_mfs(8). See the COMPATIBILITY section for more information. -c cylinders The number of cylinders per cylinder group in the file system. -D If not using auto-unit, do not run mdconfig(8) to try to detach the unit before attaching it. -d rotdelay Specify the minimum time in milliseconds required to initiate an- other disk transfer on the same cylinder. Modern disks with read/write-behind achieve higher performance without this fea- ture, so it is best to leave it at 0 milliseconds. -e maxbpg Indicate the maximum number of blocks any single file can allo- cate out of a cylinder group before it is forced to begin allo- cating blocks from another cylinder group. -F file Create a vnode-backed (MD_VNODE) memory disk backed by file. -f frag-size The fragment size of the file system in bytes. -i bytes Number of bytes per inode. -l Enable multilabel MAC on the new file system. -L Show the output of the helper programs. By default, it is sent to /dev/null. -M Create a malloc(9) backed disk (MD_MALLOC) instead of a swap- backed disk. -m percent-free The percentage of space reserved for the superuser. -N Do not actually run the helper programs. This is most useful in conjunction with -X. -n rotational-positions The default number of rotational positions to distinguish. -O optimization Select the optimization preference; valid choices are space and time, which will optimize for minimum space fragmentation and minimum time spent allocating blocks, respectively. -o mount-options Specify the mount options with which to mount the file system. See mount(8) for more information. -p permissions Set the file (directory) permissions of the mount point mount-point to permissions. The permissions argument can be in any of the mode formats recognized by chmod(1). If symbolic per- missions are specified, the operation characters "+" and "-" are interpreted relative to the initial permissions of "a=rwx". -S Do not enable soft-updates on the file system. -s size Specify the size of the disk to create. This only makes sense if -F is not specified. That is, this will work for the default swap-backed (MD_SWAP) disks, and the optional (-M) malloc(9) backed disks (MD_MALLOC). -U Enable soft-updates on the file system. This is the default, even in compatibility mode, and is accepted only for compatibil- ity. It is only really useful to negate the -S flag, should such a need occur. -v version Specify the UFS version number for use on the file system; it may be either 1 or 2. The default is derived from the default of the newfs(8) command. -w user:group Set the owner and group to user and group, respectively. The ar- guments have the same semantics as with chown(8), but specifying just a user or just a group is not supported. -X Print what command will be run before running it, and other as- sorted debugging information. The -F and -s options are passed to mdconfig(8) as -f and -s, respec- tively. The -a, -b, -c, -d, -e, -f, -i, -m and -n options are passed to newfs(8) with the same letter; the -O option is passed to newfs(8) as -o. The -o option is passed to mount(8) with the same letter. See the pro- grams that the options are passed to for more information on their seman- tics. EXAMPLES Create and mount a 32 megabyte swap-backed file system on /tmp: mdmfs -s 32m md /tmp The same file system created as an entry in /etc/fstab: md /tmp mfs rw,-s32m 2 0 Create and mount a 16 megabyte malloc-backed file system on /tmp using the /dev/md1 device; furthermore, do not use soft-updates on it and mount it async: mdmfs -M -S -o async -s 16m md1 /tmp COMPATIBILITY The mdmfs utility, while designed to be fully compatible with mount_mfs(8), can be useful by itself. Since mount_mfs(8) had some silly defaults, a "full compatibility" mode is provided for the case where bug- to-bug compatibility is desired. Full compatibility is enabled with the -C flag, or by starting mdmfs with the name mount_mfs or mfs (as returned by getprogname(3)). In this mode, only the options which would be accepted by mount_mfs(8) are valid. Fur- thermore, the following behavior, as done by mount_mfs(8), is duplicated: o The file mode of mount-point is set to 01777 as if -p 1777 was given on the command line. SEE ALSO md(4), fstab(5), mdconfig(8), mount(8), newfs(8) AUTHORS Dima Dorfman BSD February 26, 2004 BSD
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