From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266398AbUBLMsE (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:48:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266403AbUBLMsE (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:48:04 -0500 Received: from CPE-65-28-18-238.kc.rr.com ([65.28.18.238]:8350 "EHLO mail.2thebatcave.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266398AbUBLMrs (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:47:48 -0500 Message-ID: <50365.192.168.1.12.1076590069.squirrel@mail.2thebatcave.com> In-Reply-To: References: <46246.192.168.1.12.1076553774.squirrel@mail.2thebatcave.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 06:47:49 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: /proc/partitions not done updating when init is ran? From: "Nick Bartos" To: "Marcos D. Marado Torres" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org No, it is 2.4.25-pre7. I could technically go to 2.6.x, but it would take a bit of work due to some other changes. I would really like to get this stable in 2.4.x. What is nbd? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Is that happening in 2.6.2-rc3-mm1 or up? > > If yes, try unsetting nbd in your kernel config. > > Mind Booster Noori > > - -- > ================================================== > Marcos Daniel Marado Torres AKA Mind Booster Noori > /"\ http://student.dei.uc.pt/~marado > \ / marado@student.dei.uc.pt > X ASCII Ribbon Campaign > / \ against HTML e-mail and Micro$oft attachments > ================================================== > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Nick Bartos wrote: > >> I have a problem where it does not look like /proc/partitions is updated >> completely by the time init is ran. >> >> Basically I am booting from a usb flash device, and when I try to run >> fsck >> on the device on boot (using LABEL=, which is necessary since the actual >> device cannot be assumed in my config) it fails. After further >> investigation /proc/partitions does not contain any scsi partitions >> right >> when init is starting, but if I do a "sleep 10" before running fsck then >> it works fine. >> >> I can of course put that sleep in there but that is ugly and I have no >> way >> of knowing the maximum delay, so if it took too long then it would not >> work and I would be screwed... >> >> Isn't /proc/partitions supposted to be finished updating when init >> starts? >> If this is not a kernel bug (or it won't be fixed for a while), then >> what >> is the deal and how can I fix this cleanly? >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" >> in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 > > iD8DBQFAKwf2mNlq8m+oD34RAvICAJ94Kv1Yspu0syE8MLAZwSHEgJ8i4ACdEOJy > KqWcNxWT9t3o1jm1gUq04Ew= > =u2Ds > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >