From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 8:54:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icc.cgu.chel.su (gw.csu.ru [195.54.14.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C4237B406 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cgu.chel.su (mail.cgu.chel.su [195.54.14.68]) by icc.cgu.chel.su (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f98FrmP17680 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified NO); Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:53:52 +0600 (YEKST) (envelope-from ilia@cgu.chel.su) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.cgu.chel.su (8.11.6/8.11.2) with UUCP id f98Frmk47171; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:53:48 +0600 (YEKST) (envelope-from ilia@cgu.chel.su) Received: from localhost (localhost.cgu.chel.su [127.0.0.1]) by jane.poka.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f98FrO801742; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:53:24 +0600 (YEKST) (envelope-from ilia@cgu.chel.su) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:53:24 +0600 (YEKST) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@jane.poka.net To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md's oddity In-Reply-To: <15297.46915.792917.706479@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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 Salut, Mike Meyer ! On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Ilia Chipitsine types: > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > 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. > > 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? thank you. preloaded MFS did the job. > > > > 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 Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. > Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания) Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message