cvs commit: src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 21 11:07:12 UTC 2007
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 05:36, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Nick Hibma wrote:
>
> > n_hibma 2007-02-20 22:04:23 UTC
> >
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c
> > Log:
> > Kris suggested that swap is a better choice as a default than malloc.
> >
> > MFC: 1 week
>
> Are you sure this should be MFC'd? While I agree with the change in
> principle, it will cause systems currently using malloc-backed md devices to
> mysteriously switch to swap-backed. How will this behave on systems that
> don't have swap, such as pure diskless systems not using NFS-backed swap?
> This isn't a strong objection per se, but it could be that rc.d scripts need
> tweaking for diskless environments if they currently do use malloc-back md
> devices based on that being the default.
I don't think this changes the default for anything in 6.x. He changed the
default for his patch from yesterday that made it assume a type if you do
'mdconfig -s <size>'. Currently you have to do:
'mdconfig -a -t malloc -s <size>' or 'mdconfig -a -t swap -s <size>'
but Nick changed it so just '-s <size>' implied '-a -t malloc', and now
he's changed it to imply '-a -t swap'.
--
John Baldwin
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