Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:14:49 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/dev/md md.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT PCCARD src/sys/kern vfs_conf.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/ufs/mfs mfs_vfsops.c Message-ID: <15595.943787689@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:10:35 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911281202140.62295-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911281202140.62295-100000@freja.webgiro.com>, Andrze j Bialecki writes: >I'm using MFS for many things. I feel a bit uneasy now, because of lack of >information about the new md device. It seems to me that MFS got somehow >"deprecated", but I'm not sure at all what the MD gives us instead... The root filesystem capability got moved from MFS to md because the way MFS did it was rather nasty from an architecture point of view. >Could you shortly explain pros/cons of MD vs. MFS, difference in >functionality (esp. lost functionality) There are no lost functionality. > how the MD affects system >resources? You need the md driver in your kernel. > Are you going to remove MFS altogether from the -current? no. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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