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To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: About removable disks, mountroot and sw-raid 
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In message <20040114105700.H73725@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes:

>It would be nice to make the wait tunable since most conditions won't
>require it and there's no sense in delaying everyone's boot for a few
>bizarre disk setups.

You boot would not be delayed in the normal case.  The delays only apply
to how long time we want for an expected disk to show up.

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