Re: [PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device (revised)

[William Park]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:34:13AM +0000, 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.

The problem at hand is that USB key drive (which is my immediate
concern) takes 5sec to show up.  So, it's much better approach than
'initrd'.

-- 
William Park <opengeometry@xxxxxxxx>, Toronto, Canada
Slackware Linux -- because I can type.
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