Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:34:13 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Joseph Fannin <jhf@rivenstone.net>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
       William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device (revised)
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References: <20050114002352.5a038710.akpm@osdl.org> <20050116005930.GA2273@zion.rivenstone.net> <41EC7A60.9090707@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:54:24AM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Retry up to 20 times if mounting the root device fails.  This fixes booting
> from usb-storage devices, which no longer make their partitions immediately
> available.

Sigh...  So we can very well get device coming up in the middle of a loop
and get the actual attempts to mount the sucker in wrong order.  How nice...

Folks, that's not a solution.  And kludges like that really have no
business being there - they only hide the problem and make it harder
to reproduce.
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