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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Subject: Re: docs/27599: md(4) manpage enhancement 
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The following reply was made to PR docs/27599; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To: sec@ice.42.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/27599: md(4) manpage enhancement 
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 20:57:23 -0700

 sec@ice.42.org writes:
 > --- /usr/export/src/share/man/man4/md.4	Sun Dec 31 03:11:56 2000
 > +++ ./md.4	Thu May 24 00:56:57 2001
 > @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@
 >  with the kernel option
 >  .Dv MD_NSECT .
 >  .Pp
 > +Be warned that due to kernel constraints such a
 > +.Nm
 > +disk cannot be bigger than a certain maximum size.
 > +This size can be found in the 'Limit' column of 'vmstat -m'.
 > +.Pp
 
 It looks to me like the man page already states this:
 
      The default maximum size of a md disk backed by malloc(9) is 20,000 sec-
      tors of 512 bytes each.  This can be changed with the kernel option
      MD_NSECT.
 
 Perhaps it might make sense to mention vmstat(8), but I don't think
 it's appropriate to add another paragraph, most of which just repeats
 what has already been said.
 
 					Dima Dorfman
 					dima@unixfreak.org
 
 
 >  At boot time the
 >  .Nm
 >  driver will search for pre-loaded modules of type
 > 
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
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