Re: [PATCH] dracut:fstab-sys: Wait for devices specified using --mount option

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:36:11PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> [Regenerated the patch on top of git repo. Should be easier to apply now]
> 
> dracut allows passing --mount option which mounts the specified devices.
> But it does not wait for these devices to show up and mounting will fail
> if devices do not show up by the time "mount" was called.
> 
> I am writing some patches to support kdump on iscsi target and I noticed
> that one of the initqueue script was not called as we found the root
> device and broke out of main loop.
> 
> There are two possible enancements to this patch.
> 
> - Introduce a time limited wait (rd.timeout something along the lines of
>   rd.retry). That will allow kdump to try to dump to a backup target if
>   primary targets fails to come up.
> 
> - Wait for UUID= and LABEL= to show up too. Right now kdump converts
>   UUID= and LABEL= to respective devices and passes /dev/* to dracut
>   --mount option. So I am not introducing the wait for UUID= or LABEL=
>  in this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Hi Harald,

Any feedback on the patch? Do let me know if you want some changes.

Thanks
Vivek