Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:38:28 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: udev is too slow creating devices |
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:30:35 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
| On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:00:52PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: | > | > OK. The fact is that, when mounting the root filesystem, the kernel can | > (?) definitely say "there is no such device, and it's useless to wait | > for it--so I panic". Is it possible to duplicate this logic in the case | > with udev and modprobe? If so, it should be built into a common place | > (either the kernel or into modprobe), but not into all apps. | | No, we need to just change the kernel to sit and spin for a while if the | root partition is not found. This is the main problem right now for | booting off of a USB device (or any other "slow" to discover device.) | It's a known kernel issue, and there are patches for 2.4 for this, but | no one has taken the time to update them for 2.6.
(I'm way behind, and I was hoping this thread would die, but:)
I've seen 2.6 patches for booting from USB or IEEE1394. Is there a fair chance of getting something for USB/1394 booting merged? (other than by using initrd)
I'd certainly like to see them merged.
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