[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux-3.5.0-1 enters [testing]

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 01.08.2012 22:13, schrieb Marti Raudsepp:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> This might be unavoidable.
>>
>> Try lvmwait=/dev/sdXY on the command line, where sdXY is the partition
>> that holds the LVM PV.
> 
> So you're saying that Linux 3.5 didn't introduce any bugs, but simply
> boots up so fast that the disk isn't initialized yet by the time the
> initrd tries to activate LVM?

Yes, this has happened before.

> Couldn't this be fixed in initrd to try again every second for 5
> seconds or so, if the root device hasn't appeared?
> (Or maybe monitoring udev events, although that sounds much more complicated)

We do this already, for every device but for LVM and RAID. For RAID,
there is the auto-assembly with the mdadm_udev hook. For LVM2, I wrote
something similar once, but it had problems.

If you want the initramfs to wait for the devices, use the lvmwait
parameter and you should be fine.


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