Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:47:31 -0800 From: aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mdconfig via rc.conf Message-ID: <3A96A2A5-0BB5-4F68-905D-D0889C1A1D6D@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140305.144344.2256752746789462462.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <80EE335C-E85A-433B-A4A2-287BA8BA1345@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403042215470.39032@wonkity.com> <B9EE914F-5B33-4063-AAA6-916624DECD11@gmail.com> <20140305.144344.2256752746789462462.hrs@allbsd.org>
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On Mar 4, 2014, at 9:43 PM, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> wrote: > aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> wrote > in <B9EE914F-5B33-4063-AAA6-916624DECD11@gmail.com>: > > au> On Mar 4, 2014, at 9:19 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > au> > au> > On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, aurfalien wrote: > au> > > au> >> Hi, > au> >> > au> >> Apology for the cross post as I asked in the general questions list and also if this is not an appropriate question. > au> >> > au> >> But are there any other parameters I would need to setup a ram disk at boot time? > au> >> > au> >> I have this in my rc.conf; > au> >> > au> >> mdconfig_md100=?-t malloc -s 12G? > au> > > au> > rc.conf is sourced, but not the place for code. > au> > > au> >> I?ve opted not to mount or format it for now. > au> >> > au> >> But upon boot, I do not see the md100 device. > au> >> > au> >> Is there anything I need in rc.conf to enable this? > au> > > au> > It depends on the version of FreeBSD. On FreeBSD 10, it's easy to do with an entry in /etc/fstab, see fstab(5). For earlier versions, I'm not sure of the best way. There's /etc/rc.local, but may be more automated ways in the other rc scripts. > au> > au> Many thanks for the reply. > au> > au> What led me to rc.conf was this; > au> > au> http://ryanbowlby.com/2009/09/30/freebsd-ramdisk-mdconfig/ > au> > au> I’m using FreebSD 9 and would need it to load very early on in the boot process but not be mounted. > > mdconfig_md* have to always start from 0. An arbitrary value such as > 100 cannot be used. Thanks of this. I assumed that md100 is fine since I did it manually from the command line. Why would it behave diff manually after boot but not during boot? - aurf "Janitorial Services"
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