The
utility is designed to be a work-alike and look-alike of the deprecated
mount_mfs8.
The end result is essentially the same,
but is accomplished in a completely different way.
The
utility configures an
md(4)
disk using
mdconfig(8),
puts a UFS file system on it (unless
-P
was specified) using
newfs(8),
and mounts it using
mount(8).
It can handle
geom_uzip4
compressed disk images, as long as the kernel supports this GEOM class.
All the command line options are passed to the appropriate program
at the appropriate stage in order to achieve the desired effect.
By default,
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)Ns's
auto-unit feature to automatically select an unused device.
Unless otherwise specified with one of the options below,
it uses the default arguments to all the helper programs.
The following options are available.
Where possible,
the option letter matches the one used by
mount_mfs8
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 blocks-per-cylinder-group
The number of blocks 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 max-extent-size
The file system may choose to store large files using extents.
This parameter specifies the largest extent size that may be
used. It is presently limited to its default value which is 16
times the file system blocksize.
-E path-mdconfig
Use
path-mdconfig
as a location of the
mdconfig(8)
utility.
-e maxbpg
Indicate the maximum number of blocks any single file can allocate
out of a cylinder group before it is forced to begin allocating
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
Preserve the existing file system;
do not run
newfs(8).
This only makes sense if
-F
is specified to create a vnode-backed disk.
-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 permissions 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, and is accepted only
for compatibility.
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 arguments 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 assorted debugging information.
The
-F
and
-s
options are passed to
mdconfig(8)
as
-f
and
-s
respectively.
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 programs that the options are passed to for more information
on their semantics.
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"
Create and mount a
geom_uzip4
based compressed disk image:
"mdmfs -P -F foo.uzip -oro md.uzip /tmp/"
Mount the same image, specifying the
/dev/md1
device:
"mdmfs -P -F foo.uzip -oro md1.uzip /tmp/"
Configure a vnode-backed file system and mount its first partition,
using automatic device numbering:
"mdmfs -P -F foo.img mds1a /tmp/"
COMPATIBILITY
The
utility, while designed to be compatible with
mount_mfs8,
can be useful by itself.
Since
mount_mfs8
had some silly defaults, a
``compatibility''
mode is provided for the case where bug-to-bug compatibility is desired.
Compatibility is enabled by starting
with the name
mount_mfs
or
mfs
(as returned by
getprogname(3)).
In this mode, the following behavior, as done by
mount_mfs8,
is duplicated:
The file mode of
mount-point
is set by default to
01777
as if
-p 1777
was given on the command line.
