Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:05:17 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: src-committers@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 Message-ID: <20040917150517.GS30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <414AF776.2020708@samsco.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>
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--uc5zGjFBODY91vVH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:40:54AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: +> 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. It is still impossible to detach such big md(4) device if it is filled. System panics somewhere in swap code, but I don't think it is important for our use. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --uc5zGjFBODY91vVH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBSv0tForvXbEpPzQRAkTPAKCqnATN0RSMDmjbZPa3nTduPGWpogCgjawy Xczc/VyEAufmFivo2H8BHq0= =uAU2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uc5zGjFBODY91vVH--
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