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To: Barath S <barath_yes@yahoo.com.sg>
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In message <20050111020136.57582.qmail@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Barath S w
rites:
>Where can I get details regarding the 'preload' backed
>  ram disks ?. How is it different from "malloc" based
>ram disks?  As per 'man mdconfig', there is no such
>option available.
>
>Could you kindly provide me more hints on this?

With a preloaded disk you load the disk image from the loader (along
with loading the kernel) and the md(4) driver discovers the image
automatically.

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