No automatic root mount holding for new geom providers?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Nov 6 08:06:15 UTC 2017
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In message <0100015f900017eb-91becde5-26c8-49f0-b593-751670ca42e0-000000 at email.
amazonses.com>, Colin Percival writes:
>In practice, it seems that we avoid this by virtue of tasting new geoms being
>much faster than everything else the kernel does between when the disks are
>attached and when vfs_mountroot runs, but I wouldn't want to rely on that.
>
>Am I missing something?
As I recall, the actual open will stall on the non-empty event-queue.
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