From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 7:25:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE2F737B406 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 07:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 40972 invoked by uid 100); 8 Oct 2001 14:25:07 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15297.46915.792917.706479@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:25:07 -0500 To: Ilia Chipitsine Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md's oddity In-Reply-To: <4065006@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ilia Chipitsine types: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Ilia E. Chipitsine types: > > > Salut, Mike Meyer ! > > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > Ilia Chipitsine types: > > > > Check the md man page. It notes that md disks are "severely limited in > > > so, why does it hang ? > > Because it's buggy. You should be getting an ENOSPC error. > I'm not getting any error. "cp" process is in "MD sec" state. > system is hanging. that's it. That's because it's buggy. > well, problem is very and very simple. > I need just memory disk. 150, 200Mb. no matter what. So why not use mfs or create a pre-loaded md, as I suggested? > > Yes. It's also going to replace vn. It's a new version that combines > > the functionality of all three of them. I don't know what, if any, > > limits it has if you want the disk to not be able to be paged out. > CURRENT branch ? or STABLE ? -Current eventually becomes -stable. Right now the new md is in -current. The best comment on the state of -current is that 5.0-RELEASE has been put off until next year. A number of people have asked that the new md be MFC'ed, without deleting vn and mfs as happened in -current, so that those of us using mfs and vn can on -stable can switch in advance. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message