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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:22:03 +0100
From:      Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
To:        Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Creating swap based ramdisks from rc.initdiskless by default
Message-ID:  <49788F1B.7000600@fsn.hu>
In-Reply-To: <a2b6592c0901220705q5f30e292o9f555e464a8706b1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4978853A.2000107@fsn.hu> <a2b6592c0901220705q5f30e292o9f555e464a8706b1@mail.gmail.com>

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Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> 2009/1/22 Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>:
>
> [snip]
>
>   
>> So the question is: what is the rationale behind creating malloc backed
>> disks by default, instead of swap-backed ones?
>>     
>
> Yes --- booting from DoC/CDROM/PXE with no HDD on the node...
>   
Did you read my e-mail?

px# geom disk list
px# swapinfo
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
px# /sbin/mdmfs -S -i 4096 -s 32m md /tmp/a
px# mdconfig -lv
md0    malloc      9.8M
md1    malloc       34M
md2    swap       20M
md3    swap       32M






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