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$FreeBSD: head/share/man/man5/tmpfs.5 170927 2007-06-18 18:58:15Z brueffer $

.Dd June 18, 2007 .Dt TMPFS 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm tmpfs .Nd "efficient memory file system" .Sh SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: d -ragged -offset indent .Cd "options TMPFS" .Ed

p Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in .Xr loader.conf 5 : d -literal -offset indent tmpfs_load="YES" .Ed To load as a kernel loadable module:

p .Dl "kldload tmpfs" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver will permit the .Fx kernel to access .Tn tmpfs file systems. .Sh EXAMPLES To mount a .Nm memory file system:

p .Dl "mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp" .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr nmount 2 , .Xr unmount 2 , .Xr fstab 5 , .Xr mount 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Fx 7.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm kernel implementation was written by .An Julio M. Merino Vidal Aq jmmv@NetBSD.org as a Google SoC project.

p .An Rohit Jalan and others ported it from .Nx to .Fx .

p This manual page was written by .An Xin LI Aq delphij@FreeBSD.org . .Sh BUGS The .Nm kernel implementation is currently considered as an experimental feature. Some file system mount time options are not well supported.