Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:29:20 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: david.brinegar@acm.org Subject: Re: About removable disks, mountroot and sw-raid Message-ID: <28661.1074112160@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:15:23 MST." <20040114.131523.03269738.imp@bsdimp.com>
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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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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