<div dir="ltr">wasn't me...<br><br>commit 5e398e546ea65751e6a774daf828fe06f74434a2<br>Author: Tom Gundersen <<a href="mailto:teg@jklm.no">teg@jklm.no</a>><br>Date: Fri Nov 23 03:41:13 2012 +0100<br><br> fstab-generator: generate new_root.mount in initrd<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Lennart Poettering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" target="_blank">lennart@poettering.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, 01.03.13 18:38, Tom Gundersen (<a href="mailto:teg@jklm.no">teg@jklm.no</a>) wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Lennart Poettering<br>
> <<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> When rootwait is not passed the kernel calls sys_mount() immediately<br>
> >> (after the equivalent of "udevadm settle") assuming the device will be<br>
> >> there, failing if it is not. Otherwise, if rootwait is called, the<br>
> >> kernel will wait (possibly indefinitely) for the device to appear<br>
> >> before attempting to mount it.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Setting JobTimeout=0 on the device seems correct to me.<br>
> ><br>
> > I don't really agree. The difference between the kernel and the initrd<br>
> > in this regard is that the initrd can offer the user a shell, he can<br>
> > debug things with. The naked kernel cannot do this. If the root device<br>
> > doesn't show up we should give the user a shell, so we should timeout<br>
> > this.<br>
><br>
> Yeah, when using systemd 'rootwait' is not really that useful, as we<br>
> can do better.<br>
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</div>Harald, do you mind if I revert your patch that added "rootwait" support<br>
to fstab generator? What's the precise benefit of supporting that in the<br>
initrd?<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
Lennart<br>
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.<br>
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