Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:05:52 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device (revised) |
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:02:15PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Al Viro wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:54:24AM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > >>Retry up to 20 times if mounting the root device fails. This fixes > >>booting > >>from usb-storage devices, which no longer make their partitions > >>immediately > >>available. > > > > > >Sigh... So we can very well get device coming up in the middle of a loop > >and get the actual attempts to mount the sucker in wrong order. How > >nice... > > > >Folks, that's not a solution. And kludges like that really have no > >business being there - they only hide the problem and make it harder > >to reproduce. > > Is there a solution other than initrd/initramfs ?
On the one hand, I entirely agree with Al - this guessing business is a bad kludge, and building complications on top of it makes things worse.
On the other hand, we do already have the rootfstype= option, so one can avoid trying things in the "wrong" order.
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