On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:36:11PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > [Regenerated the patch on top of git repo. Should be easier to apply now] > > dracut allows passing --mount option which mounts the specified devices. > But it does not wait for these devices to show up and mounting will fail > if devices do not show up by the time "mount" was called. > > I am writing some patches to support kdump on iscsi target and I noticed > that one of the initqueue script was not called as we found the root > device and broke out of main loop. > > There are two possible enancements to this patch. > > - Introduce a time limited wait (rd.timeout something along the lines of > rd.retry). That will allow kdump to try to dump to a backup target if > primary targets fails to come up. > > - Wait for UUID= and LABEL= to show up too. Right now kdump converts > UUID= and LABEL= to respective devices and passes /dev/* to dracut > --mount option. So I am not introducing the wait for UUID= or LABEL= > in this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Hi Harald, Any feedback on the patch? Do let me know if you want some changes. Thanks Vivek -- 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
