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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:21:13 -0400
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
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Subject: race between SCSI uevents and media detection
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For a typical livecd boot using udev, you'd check for the root device
with a udev rule like:

KERNEL=="sr[0-9]", PROGRAM=="/lib/udev/vol_id -l %N", RESULT="<some label>",
	SYMLINK+="root"

This creates a /dev/root symlink to whichever CD device holds the proper
CD/DVD.

However, this currently fails repeatedly on some machines, as the run
of vol_id gets ENOMEDIUM attempting to open the CD device. I suspect
this is because the initial medium scan is actually done after the
uevent for /dev/sr0 is emitted.

Can the open path be fixed to block until the medium state is initially
known? I don't see how this can be worked around from userspace - you
don't get another uevent for the media detection.

Bill
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