From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 14:49:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292BC16A4CE; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:49:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.67.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B823C43D53; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:49:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.42 (FreeBSD)) id 1C8K33-00049m-VY; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:49:17 +0100 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:49:17 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20040917144917.GU1538@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Scott Long , Pawel Jakub Dawidek , Giorgos Keramidas , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200409162132.i8GLWDpF050910@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040916213937.GF30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040916214602.GG30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040916220959.GA45451@gothmog.gr> <20040916224536.GI30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040917143400.GT1538@submonkey.net> <414AF776.2020708@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="B0ZU/rjo5v6h4DpE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414AF776.2020708@samsco.org> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mdioctl.h src/sys/dev/md md.c src/sbin/mdconfig Makefile mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:49:19 -0000 --B0ZU/rjo5v6h4DpE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:40:54AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:45:36AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > > >>On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:09:59AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>+> > +> Filesystem Size Used Avail=20 > >>Capacity Mounted on > >>+> > +> [...] > >>+> > +> /dev/md0 15T 249M 14T =20 > >>0% /mnt > >>+> > +> /dev/md1 11T 128K 10T =20 > >>0% /mnt2 > >>+> > > >>+> > ragepxe:root:~# mdconfig -l -u 0 > >>+> > md0 swap 15T > >>+> > ragepxe:root:~# mdconfig -l -u 1 > >>+> > md1 vnode 11T > >>+>=20 > >>+> I think most of us were already jealous enough by seeing the first= =20 > >>post :-P > >>+> (Thanks for the extra md coolness these commits made possible :-)) > >> > >>Jealous about what?:) You know, that you can setup 15TB of md(4)=20 > >>swap-backed > >>device on 512MB swap partition, right? > > > >What happens if you try to fill them? >=20 > The advantage of what Pawel has done is that you can simulate very large > disks for the purpose of debugging other utlities like sysinstall, > bsdlabel, fdisk, newfs, growfs, etc. Some of these programs have > limitations that cannot be changed, but they can be verified and fixed > to have sane behaviour. Don't misunderstand me, I'm appreciative of that. My question stemmed =66rom curiosity alone; I had to either ask or try it out this weekend and I figured that somebody was sure to know already. Ceri --=20 It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin. I am a robot. --B0ZU/rjo5v6h4DpE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBSvltocfcwTS3JF8RAocPAJ9bocqQHTMl7nUtZ30G5UCXektAywCaA+qX dM0QdfHAj0wQT6ixRRtHOFQ= =VrHM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --B0ZU/rjo5v6h4DpE--