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Date:      Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:38:28 +0000
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matteo Riondato <matteo@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d mdconfig
Message-ID:  <20070827133828.GA70070@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200708250019.l7P0JHxK057929@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200708250019.l7P0JHxK057929@repoman.freebsd.org>

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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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