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Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue 
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In message <20030717164237.GB47198@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:25:47PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >- swapon, this is not needed to fix a whacked out /lib.... unless we add
>> >  Emacs to /resuce.
>> 
>> swapon should stay, various programs which build filesystem trees
>> in memory can become quite hungry.
>
>Does 'swapon' need to be run first in order for 'mdmfs' to work?  I
>suspect so; but want to know for sure.

Depends which backing you want for you md(4) device.  It's only necessary
for "swap" backing, "malloc" and "vnode" backing does not need it.

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