On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:09:20PM -0500, Jan Harkes wrote:
> Putting a modprobe in the venus.init script doesn't work, because there
> is a non-deterministic amount of time between the loading of the kernel
> module and the appearance of the device.
A suggestion,
modprobe followed by a (timeout-checking) loop to see if the file
has appeared works for me and should work fine in most environments:
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...
start)
modprobe coda
echon "waiting for Coda special file to appear... "
count=""
while [ ! -c /dev/cfs0 ]; do
case x"$count" in
### 30 seconds elapsed ?
x------------------------------*)
echo "cfs0 activation timeout, giving up..."
break
;;
esac
count="-$count"
sleep 1
done
[ -c /dev/cfs0 ] && startstopvenus start
;;
...
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Cheers,
--
Ivan
