Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:44:58 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue Message-ID: <7697.1058460298@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:42:37 PDT." <20030717164237.GB47198@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20030717164237.GB47198@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:25:47PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >- swapon, this is not needed to fix a whacked out /lib.... unless we add >> > Emacs to /resuce. >> >> swapon should stay, various programs which build filesystem trees >> in memory can become quite hungry. > >Does 'swapon' need to be run first in order for 'mdmfs' to work? I >suspect so; but want to know for sure. Depends which backing you want for you md(4) device. It's only necessary for "swap" backing, "malloc" and "vnode" backing does not need it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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