svn commit: r258909 - in head: sbin/mdconfig sys/dev/md sys/sys

[John-Mark Gurney]

Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote this message on Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 10:43 +0100:
> Wiadomo?? napisana przez Mateusz Guzik w dniu 4 gru 2013, o godz. 08:54:
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 07:38:24AM +0000, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> >> Author: trasz
> >> Date: Wed Dec  4 07:38:23 2013
> >> New Revision: 258909
> >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258909
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >>  Add "null" backend to mdconfig(8).  This does exactly what the name
> >>  suggests, and is somewhat useful for benchmarking.
> >> 
> > 
> > There is already a 'geom zero' module which I believe provides
> > equivalent functionality.
> 
> Oh, the joys of software without manual pages.  Still, I'm leaning toward

There isn't even a gzero command either...  One of the problems of
something so simple..

> leaving this in, in case someone needs more than one instance, or a particular
> size.

gzero+gnop would get you the specific size you want... Though gnop doesn't
provide a way to name the output different, so you'd be limited to only
one instance...

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