On 08/10/10 14:30, Seewer Philippe wrote: > On 10/08/2010 12:20 PM, PÃdraig Brady wrote: >> My terminals just failed to boot because the router >> was (temporarily) unavailable. Seems this is on purpose? >> >> http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut;a=commit;h=98f25e96 >> >> >> I don't know what the above is trying to do exactly. > > What this does ist simply try and give a possible router enough time to > update its STP caches (See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_tree_protocol) so that subsequent > mount attempts don't fail because the router isn't ready. > > So yes, it is on purpose if the available IP information contains routers. > > I Hope this helps Thanks for the info, but. Is it right to do this synchronously with such a long timeout? Is it right to die if we can't contact the router? cheers, PÃdraig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
