Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:03:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: marius@malkav.snowmoon.com Subject: Re: memory disks in 4.5-stable Message-ID: <200212132103.gBDL3Aea032148@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20021212170432.V55411-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> References: <20021212170432.V55411-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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In article <20021212170432.V55411-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>, Marius M. Rex <marius@malkav.snowmoon.com> wrote: > > I want to create a number of small RAM disks on some webservers so they > can serve high traffic content directly off of RAMdisks instead of > conventional disks or NFS. > > I first tested this out on my desktop machine 4-7 stable and everything > worked just fine. I made 3 10Mb RAMdisks and mounted then just as > planned. But once I hopped onto the production servers (4.5-Stable from > eb 26, 2002 I believe) I seemed to be limited to using only one md device. > Only md0 is reconized as valid, any device number above that fails > to be recognized as a configured device. It's a bug that I fixed in the -stable branch on 19 August. If you update "src/sys/dev/md/md.c" to revision 1.8.2.2 and rebuild your kernel, your problem should go away. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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