In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mikhail Teterin write
s:

>When I moved  to mdconfig, I figured  I have to use ``-t  swap'' for the
>same effect, but it seems, I was wrong -- apparently, ``swap'' means the
>filesystem will always hit  the disk, even if there is  plenty of RAM to
>go around. My suspicion was further confirmed, by disabling the swapping
>at  all --  the  mdconfig-ed  device stopped  working  -- disklabel  got
>ENOMEM.

The swap backing in md(4) is a straight copy of the code which lived
in vn(4).  I'm not terribly familiar with that code, but I would
expect that it would work with no swap space as well.

Your man is probably Matt Dillon...

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