Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:16:31 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Mounting root... Message-ID: <200408231716.31321.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040823190541.GS30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20040823073559.GP30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <200408231146.12972.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040823190541.GS30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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On Monday 23 August 2004 03:05 pm, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:46:12AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > +> Why not have mirror create the provider instantly in an degraded state > as soon +> as one disk shows up and then change from degraded back to full > when the +> second disk finally arrives? Isn't this the same case as > someone jerking the +> disk out at run time and then shoving it (or a new > one) back in without +> rebooting? > > If it will be started in degraded mode, it can be mounted and modified > before next components arrive, so there will be a need to rebuild them. How is this different from jerking the disk out of a running system and then shoving it back in again? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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