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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:16:31 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Mounting root...
Message-ID:  <200408231716.31321.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040823190541.GS30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
References:  <20040823073559.GP30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <200408231146.12972.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040823190541.GS30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl>

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On Monday 23 August 2004 03:05 pm, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:46:12AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> +> Why not have mirror create the provider instantly in an degraded state
> as soon +> as one disk shows up and then change from degraded back to full
> when the +> second disk finally arrives?  Isn't this the same case as
> someone jerking the +> disk out at run time and then shoving it (or a new
> one) back in without +> rebooting?
>
> If it will be started in degraded mode, it can be mounted and modified
> before next components arrive, so there will be a need to rebuild them.

How is this different from jerking the disk out of a running system and then 
shoving it back in again?

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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