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Date:      Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:26:31 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mdioctl.h src/sys/dev/md md.c src/sbin/mdconfig Makefile mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c 
Message-ID:  <98480.1095438391@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:53:40 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040917115328.61165B-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040917115328.61165B-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe
rt Watson writes:
>On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Ceri Davies wrote:
>
>> > +> I think most of us were already jealous enough by seeing the first post :-P
>> > +> (Thanks for the extra md coolness these commits made possible :-))
>> > 
>> > Jealous about what?:) You know, that you can setup 15TB of md(4) swap-backed
>> > device on 512MB swap partition, right?
>> 
>> What happens if you try to fill them?
>
>Bewm.

Uhm, be aware that we are limited also to the size of individual
swap disks.  31 bits of bytes/sectors/pages, not quite sure which.

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