Mounting root...

[John Baldwin]

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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