Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:44:58 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting root... Message-ID: <20040823204458.GA18623@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040823203855.GV30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20040823073559.GP30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <200408231146.12972.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040823190541.GS30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040823200157.GA36920@dan.emsphone.com> <20040823203855.GV30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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--mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBKldJXY6L6fI4GtQRApyWAJ40c6mRR6PhBrh7pHIlAw5W8eZJEQCfeb9L UEjihyZ7z9lGpDf6yS5GQmw= =PvCr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ--
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