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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:25:07 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: md's oddity 
Message-ID:  <15297.46915.792917.706479@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <4065006@toto.iv>

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Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> types:
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Ilia E. Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> types:
> > > Salut, Mike Meyer !
> > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > > Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su> types:
> > > > Check the md man page. It notes that md disks are "severely limited in
> > > so, why does it hang ?
> > Because it's buggy. You should be getting an ENOSPC error.
> I'm not getting any error. "cp" process is in "MD sec" state.
> system is hanging. that's it.

That's because it's buggy.

> well, problem is very and very simple.
> I need just memory disk. 150, 200Mb. no matter what.

So why not use mfs or create a pre-loaded md, as I suggested?

> > Yes. It's also going to replace vn. It's a new version that combines
> > the functionality of all three of them. I don't know what, if any,
> > limits it has if you want the disk to not be able to be paged out.
> CURRENT branch ? or STABLE ?

-Current eventually becomes -stable. Right now the new md is in
-current. The best comment on the state of -current is that
5.0-RELEASE has been put off until next year. A number of people have
asked that the new md be MFC'ed, without deleting vn and mfs as
happened in -current, so that those of us using mfs and vn can on
-stable can switch in advance.

	<mike
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
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