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diff --git a/share/man/man4/vnd.4 b/share/man/man4/vnd.4 index ddf209d3976..0ae770be173 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/vnd.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/vnd.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: vnd.4,v 1.21 2008/03/17 16:30:36 sobrado Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: vnd.4,v 1.22 2011/04/18 16:52:12 thib Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: vnd.4,v 1.1 1995/12/30 18:10:48 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Jason R. Thorpe. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 17 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 18 2011 $ .Dt VND 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -44,21 +44,8 @@ The .Nm driver provides a disk-like interface to a file. -This is useful for a variety of applications, including swap files and -building miniroot or floppy disk images. -There are two variants, the traditional -.Nm -that bypasses the buffer cache and thus is suitable for swap on files, but -not for building disk-images, and the -.Nm svnd -.Po -.Dq safe -.Nm -.Pc -variant that goes -through the buffer cache, thereby maintaining cache-coherency after the -block-device is closed which makes it suitable for creating disk images. -The latter is not good for swapping on, though. +This is useful for a variety of applications, such as building miniroot or +floppy disk images. .Pp This document assumes familiarity with how to generate kernels and how to properly configure disks and pseudo-devices in a kernel @@ -103,7 +90,7 @@ specified in of length .Va vnd_keylen . Encryption only works with -.Nm svnd +.Nm vnd devices. The size of the configured device is returned in .Va vnd_size . @@ -163,8 +150,8 @@ and They are documented in .Xr sd 4 . .Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width /dev/{,r}{,s}vnd* -compact -.It Pa /dev/{,r}{,s}vnd* +.Bl -tag -width /dev/{,r}vnd* -compact +.It Pa /dev/{,r}vnd* .Nm device special files .El @@ -183,16 +170,16 @@ device special files .Sh HISTORY The .Nm -disk driver was originally written at the University of -Utah. +disk driver was originally written at the University of Utah. The .Nm svnd variant was first seen in .Ox 2.1 . -.Sh BUGS -The +The orginal .Nm -driver does not work if the file does not reside in a local filesystem. -However the +was removed and the .Nm svnd -variant does. +variant was renamed to +.Nm +in +.Ox 4.9 . |