On 08/10/10 14:30, Seewer Philippe wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 12:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> My terminals just failed to boot because the router
>> was (temporarily) unavailable. Seems this is on purpose?
>>
>> http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut;a=commit;h=98f25e96
>>
>>
>> I don't know what the above is trying to do exactly.
> 
> What this does ist simply try and give a possible router enough time to
> update its STP caches (See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_tree_protocol) so that subsequent
> mount attempts don't fail because the router isn't ready.
> 
> So yes, it is on purpose if the available IP information contains routers.
> 
> I Hope this helps

Thanks for the info, but.
Is it right to do this synchronously with such a long timeout?
Is it right to die if we can't contact the router?

cheers,
Pádraig.
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