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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:38:55PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:01:57PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> +> How about maybe blocking on the initial access to a degraded mirror for
> +> 5 (just a guess) seconds to see if the other half shows up?  If it
> +> doesn't, assume it's never showing up and use what you have.  When the
> +> other disk arrives, sync your changes over to it. [...]
>=20
> I'm waiting for few seconds for the rest of components now, but mounting
> root routine doesn't wait for me.
> And I'm not going to create provider without given a chance to the rest
> components to show up, because I can end up with mirror started on stale
> component, because a fresh one showed up with some delay.

Would it be feasiable to create the provider immediatly and journal
writes up to a certain period of time/data size before degrading the
array?

-- Brooks

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