From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Young Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] wait host devs in base module Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:32:26 +0800 Message-ID: <5033398A.9050206@redhat.com> References: <20120817123519.082687047@redhat.com> <20120817123905.089958024@redhat.com> <20120817165709.GA11604@redhat.com> <5031D0ED.4070901@redhat.com> <20120820145946.GD31044@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120820145946.GD31044-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Vivek Goyal Cc: chaowang-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 08/20/2012 10:59 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: [snip] >>> >>> So whereever you are waiting for a device to come up, make sure you >>> are using persistent device name as generated by udev. >> >> >> Agree too, this is a problem. Looking at the fstab-sys >> wait_mount_dev.sh, there's same issue if the dev name in fstab is not >> the "persistent device name" > > Non persistent names in /etc/fstab will not make sense as system will > be broken across reboots. So it is a requirement to put persistent > names only in /etc/fstab. > > I think last time I did partial patch to wait for device nodes. But we > still need mechanism to convert UUID= and LABEL= into respective > persistent device names. Can you please take care of that too while you > are at it. will fix this in the update patch set. > > Thanks > Vivek -- Thanks Dave