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To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:10:36 PDT, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> The following patch should work. It creates interleaving root hold
> tokens from the CAM probe to disk_create and geom providor tasting.
> I had to add a malloc type flag as sleeping isnt allowed at the
> point I added the token alloc in CAM.

> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/root_wait.diff

> It needs review by the various geom/cam ppls. 

Thanks!

The patch fixes my problem where the disk was found,
but the labels weren't found in time for mountroot.

cheers,
doug