cvs commit: src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c

[John Baldwin]

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