On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 12:47 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 09:30:24PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Thanks for your work on this bug. I ended up with a somewhat different > > implementation as I don't think it's necessary to duplicate the > > information that udev provides, and as we may now need to mount more > > than one filesystem. But I should have credited you in the changelog > > for prototyping this, and I forgot to do so. > > > > Ben. > > The idea with the udev rule was to wait up to ROOTDELAY seconds > without a new device apearing before giving up. Now you wait ROOTDELAY > seconds in total, which then can depend on the number of devices.
It's now max(rootdelay, 30) because the rootdelay kernel parameter wasn't meant for this purpose at all. > Add new disk and you have to increase the ROOTDELAY. I hope not! > Also it was ment so that block scripts could specifically target the > new devices instead of having to scan all devices every time. For > example say you have a crypt device and you forgot the password. Now I > think you will be asked 30 times for the password before the initramfs > gives up. True, but so far as I could see you didn't send scripts that made use of that. We could still implement that later, I think. And now that we potentially have to mount /usr (and possibly other filesystems), not just root and swap, lvm2's script needed to be told which device we're looking for, not which devices appeared. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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