On Thursday 19 June 2008, Alan Stern wrote: > Maybe a better approach would be to poll at reasonable intervals > (HZ/10, for example) for the existence of the root device. If it > hasn't appeared after some reasonable time (30 seconds?) then give up. Why give up, ever? If someone has to walk across the room to grab the device with the root filesystem, then has to answer the phone, then deal with the next interruption ... for an hour before getting back to the machine they rebooted, why shouldn't it just work to plug in the USB flash drive (CF card, MMC card, or whatever) *THEN* instead of having had to rush and meet some arbitrarily early deadline? When there's no root, I don't see how waiting for it to arrive could be a lose... - Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
