From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 20 9:22:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5B637B401 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:22:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f5KGJW638130; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:19:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200106201619.f5KGJW638130@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:19:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: mdconfig and _virtual_ memory To: dillon@earth.backplane.com Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200106200501.f5K51kU05828@earth.backplane.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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