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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:04:52 +0100 (CET)
From:      Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c
Message-ID:  <20070220230429.B1950@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20070220214555.GA79585@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200702202129.l1KLTVkt030545@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070220214555.GA79585@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Yes, good point. That's been discussed some time ago I believe.


> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:29:31PM +0000, Nick Hibma wrote:
>> n_hibma     2007-02-20 21:29:31 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sbin/mdconfig        mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c
>>   Log:
>>   [Found the original diff I made, see previous commit for other part]
>>   Assume '-a' and '-t malloc' flags for '-s <size>' (malloc ramdisk) if not
>>   specified.
>
> -t swap should be almost always used instead of -t malloc (which is
> slower and has poor failure properties when RAM becomes unavailable,
> i.e. it panics).
>
> Kris
>



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