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

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Am 17.05.2012 15:23, schrieb Vivek Goyal:
> 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

pushed! Thanks!