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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:07:55 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: workaround for broken mfs using vn. (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC ) 
Message-ID:  <19503.980759275@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 01:03:48 PST." <200101290903.f0T93ms62313@earth.backplane.com> 

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In message <200101290903.f0T93ms62313@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes:
>
>    It's sad to see mfs not work, but I'm sure Poul will fixup whatever
>    problems md has replacing it real quick.
>
>    In the mean time, you can use 'vn' to workaround the MFS issue.  It's
>    a little messy, but it works:
>
>    vnconfig -c -s labels,reserve -S 256m /dev/vn0
>    disklabel -r -w vn0c auto
>    newfs /dev/vn0c
>    tunefs -n enable /dev/vn0c
>    mount /dev/vn0 /usr/src/sys/compile		(or whatever)

Actually you can get in trouble because vn(4) is not fully DEVFS savy.
That is one of the reasons why the vn(4) functionality has been
integrated into md(4).

Please see mdconfig(8) for how to do this right.

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