* Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently, we'll try mounting any device who's major device number is
> UNNAMED_MAJOR as NFS root. This would happen for non-NFS devices as well (such
> as 9p devices) but it wouldn't cause any issues since mounting the device
> as NFS would fail quickly and the code proceeded to doing the proper mount:
>
> [ 101.522716] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> [ 101.534499] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:18.
>
> Commit 6829a048 ("NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT") has introduced retries when
> mounting NFS root, which means that now we don't immediately fail and instead
> it takes an additional 90+ seconds until we stop retrying, which has revealed
> the issue this patch fixes.
Just wondering, which tree is commit 6829a048 included in? It
does not appear to be mainline AFAICS.
Thanks,
Ingo
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