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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:48:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101281042170.21326-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101281038030.21326-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> > >> One should use md(4) and mdconfig(8) rather than MFS nowadays anyways, which
> > >> does work with DEVFS.
> > >
> > >Uh, I don't think so. MFS should be fixed. With MFS you should be able to take
> > >advantage of VM. I don't think the same applies to md.
> > 
> > Try it, and come back with numbers if you think it is worse...
> 
> Can't really compare right now, now can I, if MFS is broken ... :-)...
> 
> But seriously, I'll be using md a lot from now on and I'll let you know if it
> seems broken.... Like I said in other mail (paraphrasing) "Seems like this
> ought to be a VFS, but I don't really care"

First comparisons are awkward....but looks good so far.... In order to make it
work on alpha, the example in the man page had to be changes... How about:

Index: mdconfig.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.8,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 mdconfig.8
--- mdconfig.8	2001/01/10 14:53:46	1.3
+++ mdconfig.8	2001/01/28 18:47:52
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 mdconfig -a -t swap -s 128M -u 10
 disklabel -r -w md10 auto
-newfs -f 4096 /dev/md10c
+newfs -f `sysctl -n hw.pagesize` /dev/md10c
 tunefs -n enable /dev/md10c
 mount /dev/md10c /tmp
 .Ed



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