On May 11, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Brandon High wrote:

> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Richard Elling
> <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> boot single user and mv it (just like we've done for fstab/vfstab for
>> the past 30+ years :-)
> 
> It would be nice to have a grub menu item that ignores the cache, so
> if you know you've removed a USB drive, you don't need to muck about
> in single user then reboot again.
> 
> But who needs usability? This is unix, man.

I must have missed something.  For the past few years I have routinely
booted with unimportable pools because I often use ramdisks.  Sure,
I get FMA messages, but that doesn't affect the boot. OTOH, I don't try
to "backup" using mirrors.
 -- richard

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