> Well we have a diskless application, so space is an issue so I'd prefer to
> exclude MFS from the kernel build and the mount_mfs utility (which I don't
> seem to be able to find source code for).

mount_mfs is a hardlink to newfs 

> Also, I cant seem to get mount_mfs to work as I expect it to. I dont quite
> follow the man file explanation. When I do something like
> 
> mount_mfs -T mdroot swap /mnt
> 
> it always creates a 7911 x 1k "disk" no matter what I put for the -T option
> (i.e. even if the disktab parameters do not indicate a "disk" of
> that size).

i think we may need to work on its man page.

I put the following in fstab (-s specifies size in 512-byte blocks):

swap /tmp mfs rw,-s=131072

> However, if I specify something other than the "swap" keyword for the
> "special file" (eg /dev/md1c) then it does not actually mount anything, so
> it seems despite the -T flag, the "special file" is in fact used???

The man page appears to be lagging the code..

						- Bill