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From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:32:01 +0200 (MET DST)
Mipam <mipam@ibb.net> wrote:

> > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > > > Should i just put
> > > > > pseudo-device	vn
> > > > > in the kernel config file to make this work?
> >
> > In 5.x, `vn' was replaced by `md'.  (Sorry, that's about all I know
> > about it.)
> 
> Do you know whether it's being enable by default in the kernel or not?

Presumably not, inferring from:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html

"To use mdconfig(8), you have to load md(4) module or to add the support
in your kernel configuration file"

But I don't run 5.x so I don't know for sure.

-Chris