On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Daniel Drake writes: > >> My understanding is that this reconstruction is a background task, is >> there really a need for this to hold up boot? >> >> This behaviour comes from >> 0064-90mdraid-wait-for-md-devices-to-become-clean.patch in the >> dracut-013-19.fc16 package. > > > What part dracut runs during boot? Not sure if I understand the question. Dracut runs "mdadm -W" for each mdraid device during every boot when the mdraid module is included in the initramfs. This is illustrated clearly in the patch in question: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=dracut.git;a=blob;f=0064-90mdraid-wait-for-md-devices-to-become-clean.patch;h=58c786cc5ca0b94fd138674c54417c29c38befc0;hb=refs/heads/f16 -W is documented to behave as follows: -W, --wait For each md device given, wait for any resync, recovery, or reshape activity to finish before returning. mdadm will return with success if it actually waited for every device listed, oth‐ erwise it will return failure. Thanks, Daniel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
