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authordelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2007-06-16 02:35:29 +0000
committerdelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2007-06-16 02:35:29 +0000
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Add a manual page for tmpfs(5).
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/Makefile b/share/man/man5/Makefile
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@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ MAN= acct.5 \
stab.5 \
style.Makefile.5 \
sysctl.conf.5 \
+ tmpfs.5 \
utmp.5
MLINKS= dir.5 dirent.5
diff --git a/share/man/man5/tmpfs.5 b/share/man/man5/tmpfs.5
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@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Xin LI
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
+.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission
+.\"
+.\" THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
+.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
+.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
+.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
+.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd June 16, 2007
+.Dt TMPFS 5
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm tmpfs
+.Nd "tmpfs the efficient memory file system"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+To load as a kernel loadable module:
+.Pp
+.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:
+.Pp
+.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.
+.Pp
+.An Rohit Jalan
+and others ported it from
+.Nx
+to
+.Fx .
+.Pp
+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.
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