[patch] build off of memory device

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:36:24 -0800
Jason Helfman <jgh at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:31:32PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke thus
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> >Thanks for your patch!  I committed this to HEAD with a few
> >modifications.  I had to add SQL to create the config parameters
> >plus I changed some of the variable usage.  Can you confirm the
> >modified patch still works?
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> >Joe
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> Patch worked fine, however needed to add:
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> my $fd;
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> to the sub routine of configMD for perl to compile properly.
> 
> Additionally, may be a good idea to have a ${MDSIZE}b for the
> specification of the size you want passed into mdconfig, and in the
> help note that it needs byte size specified
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> usage:	tc configMd
> 	[-s <memory size in bytes>] [-t <filesystem type>]

How much sense does it make to have it in bytes? I suppose we'd use at
least (hundreds of) MB if not GBs ...


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