Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Chris Lamb [20090323 17:45]: > michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: > > The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk > > repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is > > bad and returns I/O errors with delay. > Um,

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Lamb
michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: > The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk > repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is > bad and returns I/O errors with delay. Um, what do you suggest live-initramfs should do? Regards, -- ,''

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread michal . suchanek
Package: live-initramfs Severity: normal The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is bad and returns I/O errors with delay. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT pol