RFC: root mount enhancement (round 2)
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Aug 25 20:49:36 UTC 2010
In message: <54210.1282752073 at critter.freebsd.dk>
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: 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.
We already do this... But it is insufficient since usb discovery is
done asynchronously...
Scott has a similar fix in the pipeline, but I don't know the state of
it.
Warner
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