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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:19:23 +0100
From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: is it safe to reboot while gmirror is rebuilding?
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On FBSD 8.0-current ia64 I've gmirror on 63GB partition, which
takes quite a long time to rebuild, perhaps 30 min. Is it
safe to reboot, or write to this filesystem, while it is
being rebuilt (gmirror status DEGRADED) ?

many thanks

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Anton Shterenlikht
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