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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:12:09 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/vnconfig vnconfig.8 vnconfig.c 
Message-ID:  <32692.980878329@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:06:16 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010130130500.29561E-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010130130500.29561E-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe
rt Watson writes:
>
>Also, the /etc/rc magic for swapfile has not been updated to use something
>other than vnconfig.  That said, a glance at the swapfile magic shows that
>it hard codes the use of vn0c, whereas it should probably do some sort of
>additional magic to atomically find and claim the first available virtual
>device (or md internals, or whatever the new mechanism will be), and use
>that instead. 

mdconfig will autoallocate and will spew the devicename on stdout if
you don't force a particular unit number.

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