NAME
mdconfig
- configure MEMORY disks
SYNOPSIS
mdconfig
special_file
512-byte-blocks
DESCRIPTION
The
mdconfig
command configures memory disk devices.
It will associate the special file
special_file
with a range of user-virtual memory allocated by the
mdconfig
process itself. The
mdconfig
command should be run in the background.
If successful, the command will not return.
Otherwise, an error message will be printed.
To "unconfigure" the memory disk, just kill the background
mdconfig
process started earlier.
FILES
/dev/rmd??
-
/dev/md??
-
EXAMPLES
mdconfig
/dev/md0c
2048
&
Configures the memory disk
md0c
with one megabyte of user-space memory.
SEE ALSO
mount(8),
swapon(8),
umount(8)
BUGS
The special device will become inoperative if the
mdconfig
process is killed while the special device is open.