Mounting root...

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 23 12:05:44 PDT 2004


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.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
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