From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 15:05:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27E016A4CF; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:05:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765F943D49; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:05:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 38621ACADB; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:05:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:05:17 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20040917150517.GS30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <200409162132.i8GLWDpF050910@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040916213937.GF30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040916214602.GG30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040916220959.GA45451@gothmog.gr> <20040916224536.GI30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040917143400.GT1538@submonkey.net> <414AF776.2020708@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uc5zGjFBODY91vVH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414AF776.2020708@samsco.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: Ceri Davies cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mdioctl.h src/sys/dev/md md.c src/sbin/mdconfig Makefile mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:05:20 -0000 --uc5zGjFBODY91vVH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:40:54AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: +> The advantage of what Pawel has done is that you can simulate very large +> disks for the purpose of debugging other utlities like sysinstall, +> bsdlabel, fdisk, newfs, growfs, etc. Some of these programs have +> limitations that cannot be changed, but they can be verified and fixed +> to have sane behaviour. It is still impossible to detach such big md(4) device if it is filled. System panics somewhere in swap code, but I don't think it is important for our use. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --uc5zGjFBODY91vVH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBSv0tForvXbEpPzQRAkTPAKCqnATN0RSMDmjbZPa3nTduPGWpogCgjawy Xczc/VyEAufmFivo2H8BHq0= =uAU2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uc5zGjFBODY91vVH--