Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:01:13 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Arch" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: root mount enhancement (round 2) Message-ID: <54210.1282752073@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:58:16 MST." <34EF2360-1B68-4E0C-8CCE-409CE141D0B8@mac.com>
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In message <34EF2360-1B68-4E0C-8CCE-409CE141D0B8@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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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