vn vs. md - persistent swap-backed memory disk?

[Scott Mitchell]

Hi all,

On 4.whatever, I can create a swap-backed vn(4) disk that will survive a
reboot, following the recipe in the vnconfig manpage.  All very useful for
stuff in /tmp that I don't _really_ care about, but it's nice to have hang
around anyway.

The equivalent setup on a 5.2 box with md(4) doesn't behave in quite the
same way:

	# mdconfig -a -t swap -o reserve -s 1g -u 1
	# newfs -U /dev/md1
	[...]
	# mount /dev/md1 /tmp
	# umount /tmp
	# mdconfig -d -u 1
	# mdconfig -a -t swap -o reserve -s 1g -u 1
	# mount /dev/md1 /tmp
	mount: /dev/md1 on /var/tmp: incorrect super block

Same result if I don't use the 'reserve' flag, or if I bsdlabel md1 and
mount md1c instead.  I _can_ recover a filesystem on a file-backed md
though.

So just wondering if it's supposed to work this way, or if I'm doing
something wrong setting it up?

	Scott

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