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Date:      Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:27:01 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911282222380.82278-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <15844.943791750@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911281303130.64811-100000@freja.webgiro.com>, Andrze
> j Bialecki writes:
> 
> >Wow, that's short! :-/ Anything else? Initializing from FS image? Using
> >swap? How does it affect VM resources? Does it wire down the kernel 
> >memory? What is the overhead as compared to MFS?
> 
> Andrzej,
> 
> Please read what I wrote, this is really a rather simple thing:

Yes, I understood that part. Don't take it as grumbling, please. I'm just
asking for more info on MD vs. MFS, which you didn't provide. It
seems that they implement almost the same functionality. What are the
gains, then?

 > 
> The MFS_ROOT, and MFS_ROOT_SIZE functionality is *MOVED* to the
> md driver, ie: it is no longer implemented in the MFS filesystem
> but in the md driver instead.  It still works the same.
> 
> Every other aspect of MFS is still the same.
> 
> --
> 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!
> 


Andrzej Bialecki

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