Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:05:26 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memstick.img is bloated with 7% 2K blocks of nulls Message-ID: <20110212170526.00004cab@unknown> In-Reply-To: <201102121656.p1CGu8kC024460@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <20110212010115.000066db@unknown> <201102121656.p1CGu8kC024460@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:56:08 +0100
"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:
> It's not so obvious but in man mdconfig, there's no "[]" around "-t
> type", I read that as "-t something" is mandatory, (though it starts
> without for you ... & I suspect -t default is malloc, though manual
> doesnt say that, but look what manual says re. malloc ... panic ).
But from the manual page:
-f file
Filename to use for the vnode type memory disk. Options -a
and -t vnode are implied if not specified.
So if you specify -f then you get -t vnode automatically.
--
Bruce Cran
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