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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 > Ian Smith wrote:
[..]
 > > But is running out of memory with swap-backed md (with no swap) likely
 > > to be any prettier than the panics from (unreserved) malloc backing?

 > Probably not.  No worse though.

Couldn't be :)

 > > By 'ideally' I guess you mean that it doesn't, yet?  I hope to get a

 > Correct.

Ta.  Had a bit of a browse through md.c, but soon got a stiff neck.

 > > Also noted in passing: the 'auto' parameter to bsdlabel(8) used by one
 > > mdconfig(8) example is undocumented, though supported in bsdlabel.c
 > 
 > OK, you should submit a PR.

FWIW, docs/116047

Cheers, Ian