Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-15T19:57:19Z

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:37:44 -0400
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:

> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:25:05 -0400
> > Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Greg KH wrote:
> >>> ..
> >>> The issue is that you were just lucky that your machine worked
> >>> properly previously. My boxes with the same type of setup didn't,
> >>> so I quickly realized what the root delay boot option was for.
> >>> You need to just do the same thing here, there's nothing else we
> >>> can do.
> >> ..
> >>
> >> Bad excuse.
> >>
> >> SATA drives also take variable amounts of time to "show up" at
> >> boot. Perhaps Jeff should customize libata for your and Arjan's
> >> exact setups, just to help with understanding the point here. :)
> >
> > the difference is that with sata you know when you are done and
> > have all possible drives. No so much much with USB. So with SATA we
> > can, and do, wait for the scan to complete at the right point in
> > the boot.
> >
> >> The speed ups are fine (and welcome), but we really now need
> >> Arjan to follow-up with a patch to have the kernel *by default*
> >> wait a little longer for the rootfs to show up.
> >>
> >> Not forever, just a few seconds to compensate for the regression.
> >
> > seconds!!!!!
> > The whole kernel boots in half a second!
> ..
>
> Oh, absolutely I agree.
>
> That's why I'm not suggesting a DELAY
> but rather a TIMEOUT (where it keeps trying up until the timeout).

This exists today. It's just not something Jeff chose to use ;)
(because he didn't need to)

>
> For desktop, it should really just wait forever,
> but I can understand situations (server room)
> where that would be a Really Bad Idea.

it's called rootwait and such :)

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