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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:14:38 -0400
From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:55:08 -0400
..
>> No, that's not the same thing.
>> rootwait has no timeout -- it waits *forever*,
>> which will break auto-recovery on servers.
> 
> btw while I don't disagree that something like this is nice...
> 
> .... who would boot their server from a USB stick for production use?
..

At least one MAJOR storage vendor that I know of.
Probably more.

Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick.

Cheers
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