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Marcel,

> and i am stick with another prolbem. so far i've read that the md
> driver can be used to mound a file in an filesystem. before i could
> use mdconfig. but........i don't have mdconfig on my branch (4.10)

On 4.x you can use md, but it's easier to use mfs. In the vfstab, you
simply put the swap device in place of "md", eg.

/dev/ad0s1b	/tmp	mfs	-s=65536	0	0

See mount_mfs(8), aka. newfs(8).


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