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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:02:15 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Organization: OSDL
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To: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
CC: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>, 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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Al Viro wrote:
> 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.

Is there a solution other than initrd/initramfs ?

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy
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