please explain ...

[Tomohiro Kusumi]

 Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me>:
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:39:06 +0200
> Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Holm,
>
> Thanks for trying DFly :)
>
> > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: [drm] fb depth is 24
> > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: [drm]    pitch is 5888
> > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: drm0: debug: Error during ACPI methods call
> > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.40.0 20080528
> > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: md3: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: md4: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:35 fly kernel: md5: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:35 fly kernel: md6: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:35 fly kernel: md7: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:40 fly kernel: md8: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:50 fly kernel: md9: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md10: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md11: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md12: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md13: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md14: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md15: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md16: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md17: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md18: Malloc disk
> > Jul 19 11:12:57 fly kernel: pid 1305 (at-spi-bus-launc), uid 201: exited on
> > signal 11
> >
> > ..what those inflationary appearing malloc disks are good for:
>
> The "md" device uses an "almost cloning" method, i.e., when /dev/md{N} is
> opened, a /dev/md{N+1} device is auto created.
>
> I think there is something wrong with the md probe... but I don't have more
> ideas here.

This is a known behavior which originates from FreeBSD.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/1624e20f39888e846831b8a8457c919d0cfa54c9

I doubt anyone or any userspace program needs this behavior.

>
> > ..and why my CDrom drive in the Laptop is generating lots of those ugly
> > fault messages:
> >
> > If I remove the audio CD in the drive I get the logs filled up with this
> > every second:
> >
>
> The kernel messages about the CD drive is a know problem but shouldn't cause
> any real issues.
>
> Sorry that I'm not able to provide with more help about your problems.
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Aaron