RFC: root mount enhancement (round 2)
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Aug 25 16:01:16 UTC 2010
In message <34EF2360-1B68-4E0C-8CCE-409CE141D0B8 at mac.com>, Marcel Moolenaar wri
tes:
>don't want to enhance: A USB disk cannot always be used as a root
>file system by virtue of the USB stack releasing the root mount
>lock after creating the umass device, but before CAM has created
>the corresponding da device.
This is a bug which is entirely unrelated to how we find the
root filesystem: It should simply be fixed by CAM grabing a
root mount lock when activated from USB and releasing it
only when all it's stuff is done.
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