Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:25:07 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md's oddity Message-ID: <15297.46915.792917.706479@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <4065006@toto.iv>
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Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> types: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Ilia E. Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> types: > > > Salut, Mike Meyer ! > > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> 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. > I'm not getting any error. "cp" process is in "MD sec" state. > system is hanging. that's it. That's because it's buggy. > well, problem is very and very simple. > I need just memory disk. 150, 200Mb. no matter what. So why not use mfs or create a pre-loaded md, as I suggested? > > 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. > CURRENT branch ? or STABLE ? -Current eventually becomes -stable. Right now the new md is in -current. The best comment on the state of -current is that 5.0-RELEASE has been put off until next year. A number of people have asked that the new md be MFC'ed, without deleting vn and mfs as happened in -current, so that those of us using mfs and vn can on -stable can switch in advance. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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