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Subject: Re: Pack of CAM improvements
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Scott Long wrote:
> I've fought many times against delay values like this.  They never
> work well enough.

At some point I hope to add support for staggered spin-ups, perhaps a
loader.conf setting for people with more than 20-30 disks.  At the
100-120 disk level it seems unlikely that any reasonable fixed delay
would be reasonable.