Re: [Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Earlier, I suggested a data-collection exercise involving udevd --verbgose, but this didn't do much good because the race went away when testing in this way. I think this was probably due to udev writing to the console. I have now prepared a version of udev which can be made not to write to the c

Re: [Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md

2007-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Reinhard Tartler writes ("Re: [Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md"): > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2. Run > > /scripts/local-top/mdadm from-udev > >(NB `from-udev' is an argument you mus

Re: [Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md

2007-02-13 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Check that > cat /proc/partitions >lists all of the components of your array. If not, then we need to >understand why not. What are those components ? You will probably >find that it does not list the array itself. If it does then we

Re: [Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md

2007-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Aurelien Naldi writes ("[Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md"): > The array should _not_ be started _at_all_ unless all needed devices > have been detected (including spare ones) OR when all device > detection is done. Unfortunately, in Linux 2.6, there is no way t

Re: [Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md

2007-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Aurelien Naldi writes ("[Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md"): > The first boot went fine. The next one hanged. And the next one went > also fine. For all of them, I get the message "no devices listed in > cinf file were found" but it looks harmless. I do not kno

Re: [Bug 75681] Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md

2007-02-08 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Aurelien Naldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks like it was fixed by recent updates, but at the expense of > breaking LVM (my initramfs does not contain (/scripts/local-top/lvm > anymore). I can confirm. Latest updates changed the behavior, now the raid is activated but not lvm. booting with