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[2009-01-05 13:34] Arthur Marsh <arthur.ma...@internode.on.net> > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote, on 2009-01-01 21:14: > > [Arthur Marsh] > >> After manually observing a reboot, it appears that although module > >> eata is successfully loaded before filesystems are checked, the > >> device files for the SCSI disk are created asynchronously, in my > >> case after the filesystem check script has attempted to check the > >> filesystems on the SCSI disk. > > > > Right. So you have been hit by the introduction of asynchronous > > behaviour of the Linux kernel. I have no good idea how to solve it. > > We need to make the early boot system asynchronous too to avoid such > > problems. It also affect USB disks and other busses with slow > > discovery process. :( > > > > Happy hacking, > > Would this behaviour be changed by changing from > > CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y > > to: > > CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=n > > in the kernel configuration? Dear maintainers of linux, could you please take a look at this issue? Is there any smart way to wait for this asyncronous behaviour?
