Re: About removable disks, mountroot and sw-raid

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 01/14/04

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    To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:29:20 +0100

    In message <20040114.131523.03269738.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
    >In message: <27183.1074107137@critter.freebsd.dk>
    > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
    >: In message <20040114105700.H73725@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes:
    >:
    >: >It would be nice to make the wait tunable since most conditions won't
    >: >require it and there's no sense in delaying everyone's boot for a few
    >: >bizarre disk setups.
    >:
    >: You boot would not be delayed in the normal case. The delays only apply
    >: to how long time we want for an expected disk to show up.
    >
    >What are there plans to allow disks to arrive after we give up?
    >Obviously if we give up, we'll be at the root> prompt, but if a disk
    >is a little late, it would be nice to be able to say 'da0s1a' and have
    >it find this device, rather than hard wiring the available devices at
    >the time that the first root> prompt is given.

    That's how it works today and how it should still work IMO. 

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