Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:19:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: dillon@earth.backplane.com Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mdconfig and _virtual_ memory Message-ID: <200106201619.f5KGJW638130@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <200106200501.f5K51kU05828@earth.backplane.com>
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On 19 Jun, Matt Dillon wrote: > :> The swap backing in md(4) is a straight copy of the code which > :> lived in vn(4). I'm not terribly familiar with that code, but I > :> would expect that it would work with no swap space as well. > :> > :> Your man is probably Matt Dillon... > > You can create an MD partition with wired memory - no swap backing > at all, if you want. Obviously you can make such a partition as > large as you might otherwise want to make it. Well, I want it to be _virtual memory_ backed -- not just swap or just RAM. Can I do that? It seems, not right now. I don't need it working ASAP, so I don't care for workarounds :-) But this is something FreeBSD had until 5.0 and its a shame to loose it, IMHO. Thanks, -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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