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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:53:24 +0600 (YEKST)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: md's oddity 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110082152400.956-100000@jane.poka.net>
In-Reply-To: <15297.46915.792917.706479@guru.mired.org>

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Salut, Mike Meyer !  

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> types:
> > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > Ilia E. Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> types:
> > > > Salut, Mike Meyer !
> > > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > > > Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> 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?

thank you.
preloaded MFS did the job.

> 
> > > 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.
> 
> 	<mike
> --
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
> Q: How do you make the gods laugh?		A: Tell them your plans.
> 

Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания)
Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин)



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