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Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> From: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xensource.com>
>
> When the xen block frontend driver is built as a module the module load
> is only synchronous up to the point where the frontend and the backend
> become connected rather than when the disk is added.
>
> This means that there can be a race on boot between loading the module and
> loading the dm-* modules and doing the scan for LVM physical volumes (all
> in the initrd). In the failure case the disk is not present until after the
> scan for physical volumes is complete.
>
Thanks, I've queued this.
J
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