mdconfig creating file based memory disk

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Thu Sep 10 03:10:48 UTC 2015


Hi,

I just came across a simple question. What will happen when I create
two memory disks using the same file?

Example:

mdconfig -f /usr/home/swap/swapfile -u 0
mdconfig -f /usr/home/swap/swapfile -u 1

and then I do a

swapon /dev/md0
swapon /dev/md1

It gives me double the size of 'swapfile' as swap space. It is obvious
to me that this must fail.

Shouldn't there be a note in the documentation?

Erich


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