Mike,
Any ideas on the size limitation I'm hitting with the -stable md?
Thanks,
jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Andrew J Caines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Robert J. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: Large /dev/md0 ramdisk
> Andrew J Caines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> > > From what I've read, md is a better way of going than mfs.
> > I have seen several references to md being preferred to mfs but have
been
> > unable to find any detailed comparison or evaluation. To what reference
> > were you referring?
>
> md and mfs have two different behaviors. md uses real memory. mfs uses
> buffer space, which is backed by disk. Which is better depends on what
> you need it for.
>
> > I've also seen it suggested that mfs is to go away, leaving only md. For
> > happy mfs users like myself who enjoy the convenience of a simple
flexible
> > fstab entry sufficing for memory backed non-persistent filesystems, that
> > is of some concern.
>
> md has been replaced/upgraded in -current, and now includes the
> functionality of both mfs and vn. If I understand things correctly,
> the new md implementation of mfs will perform better than mfs.
>
> There has been talk of a "make and mount" command for md that would
> work like mount_md, but it doesn't appear to have materialized
> yet. There are also patches floating around for /etc/rc that let you
> set a couple of things in /etc/rc.conf to get your md file system set
> up at boot.
>
> <mike
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