Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

From: Mark Lord
Date: Wed Apr 15 2009 - 22:14:55 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:55:08 -0400
..
No, that's not the same thing.
rootwait has no timeout -- it waits *forever*,
which will break auto-recovery on servers.

btw while I don't disagree that something like this is nice...

.... who would boot their server from a USB stick for production use?
..

At least one MAJOR storage vendor that I know of.
Probably more.

Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick.

Cheers
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