cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d mdconfig

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 27 06:38:28 PDT 2007


On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:19:17AM +0000, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> matteo      2007-08-25 00:19:17 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc/rc.d             mdconfig 
>   Log:
>   sleep 2 seconds after having loaded g_uzip.ko. We need this because
>   otherwise the /dev/mdX.uzip won't be created immediately, which is
>   needed because we issue a mount right afterwards.

Wouldn't it be better to loop & retry (with a small sleep) until it
appears?  "Sleeping N seconds" is a way to just shuffle a race into
some other case.

Kris


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