On Fri, 01.03.13 18:38, Tom Gundersen (t...@jklm.no) wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Lennart Poettering > <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > >> When rootwait is not passed the kernel calls sys_mount() immediately > >> (after the equivalent of "udevadm settle") assuming the device will be > >> there, failing if it is not. Otherwise, if rootwait is called, the > >> kernel will wait (possibly indefinitely) for the device to appear > >> before attempting to mount it. > >> > >> Setting JobTimeout=0 on the device seems correct to me. > > > > I don't really agree. The difference between the kernel and the initrd > > in this regard is that the initrd can offer the user a shell, he can > > debug things with. The naked kernel cannot do this. If the root device > > doesn't show up we should give the user a shell, so we should timeout > > this. > > Yeah, when using systemd 'rootwait' is not really that useful, as we > can do better.
Harald, do you mind if I revert your patch that added "rootwait" support to fstab generator? What's the precise benefit of supporting that in the initrd? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
