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From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
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Subject: Re: geom_mirror delayed synchronizing question
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On 2006.12.27 15:18:43 +0100, Christian Laursen wrote:
> I am trying to add functionality to geom_mirror to prevent it from
> synchronizing mirrors until a given time even if the mirrors are
> configured for autosynchronization. The purpose of this is to be able
> to postpone the synchronization until fsck is done after an unclean
> shutdown.

Is this mainly for forground or background fsck?  For background fsck
at least, wouldn't it be simpler to just postpone fsck until the sync
is done?

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Simon L. Nielsen