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Subject: Re: geom_mirror delayed synchronizing question
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"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> 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?

I think it makes sense for both foreground and background fsck but I
agree that for background fsck it would work to just postpone the
fsck.

However, we use foreground fsck everywhere so that is my primary
concern.

-- 
Christian Laursen