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Cc: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: automatic fsck on gmirror failure
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> 
>> $ grep -i fsck /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>> fsck_y_enable="NO"      # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen
>> fails.
>> 
>> gmirror(8) / geom(8) should automatically remove (degrade) components
>> with bad I/O operations after a certain threshold, but I'm pretty sure
>> it doesn't.
>
> yes it does


Maybe my experiences didn't his the threshold.  I'm checking the code now. 
The threshold is likely compile-time adjusable.

~BAS