From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 20:21:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8800937B407 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22239 invoked by uid 100); 8 Oct 2001 03:21:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15297.7115.222923.347451@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 22:21:47 -0500 To: "Ilia E. Chipitsine" Cc: Mike Meyer , Subject: Re: md's oddity In-Reply-To: References: <15297.3892.110144.826331@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ilia E. Chipitsine types: > Salut, Mike Meyer ! > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Ilia Chipitsine types: > > Check the md man page. It notes that md disks are "severely limited in > so, why does it hang ? Because it's buggy. You should be getting an ENOSPC error. > and why 20Mb limit is so magic ? Because that's the bucket size that the VM system decides is write for your hardware configuration. > > size". To get overcome those limits, you'll have to either use mfs, or > > a pre-loaded md disk. > it is said that md is to replace mfs, isn't it ? Yes. It's also going to replace vn. It's a new version that combines the functionality of all three of them. I don't know what, if any, limits it has if you want the disk to not be able to be paged out. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message