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rumpfs
—
rumpfs
is a simple in-memory file system for rump
kernels. It is automatically mounted as the root file system of a rump kernel
at boot time, provided that the VFS faction is configured into the rump kernel
instance.
The three main features of rumpfs
are:
rumpfs
is not intended for hosting large
files or big directory hierarchies. If faced with such a use case, mounting
a tmpfs file system inside the rump kernel is recommended.
rumpfs
first appeared in NetBSD
6.0.
March 3, 2014 | NetBSD 9.4 |