docs/51897: Add example for disklable for md devices
Simon L. Nielsen
simon at nitro.dk
Wed May 7 08:58:51 UTC 2003
On 2003.05.07 09:34:01 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:10:06PM -0700, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > %%%
> > Index: mdconfig.8
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.8,v
> > retrieving revision 1.19
> > diff -u -d -r1.19 mdconfig.8
> > --- mdconfig.8 27 Apr 2003 01:46:56 -0000 1.19
> > +++ mdconfig.8 6 May 2003 23:54:40 -0000
> > @@ -164,6 +164,18 @@
> > mount /dev/md10 /tmp
> > chmod 1777 /tmp
> > .Ed
> > +.Pp
> > +To create a 10MB memory disk named
> > +.Pa /dev/md0
> > +with the file
> > +.Pa somebackingfile
> > +as backing and label it with normal partitions:
> > +.Bd -literal -offset indent
> > +dd if=/dev/zero of=somebackingfile bs=1k count=10k
> > +mdconfig -a -t vnode -f somebackingfile -u 0
> > +disklabel -w md0
>
> We shoould be consistent with other docs (Handbook etc..) i.e.
> disklabel -r -w md0 auto
Actually it was on purpose that I changed that. As I understand it '-r'
and 'auto' are not needed anymore post GEOM. The examples in
bsdlabel(8) does not use auto and this is the code handling '-r' :
case 'r':
/*
* We accept and ignode -r for compatibility with
* historically disklabel usage.
*/
break;
I would rather say that the rest of the docs should be change not to use
'-r' and 'auto' and perhaps add a compatibility note for FreeBSD < 5.0.
I do agree in general consitency is a very good thing, but in this case
I don't see a reason to keep the old (more complex) format around when
it really is not needed.
--
Simon L. Nielsen
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