> pitti smoser: ah, I remember -- indeed, this rootdelay= thing is FUBAR; TBH I
> don't see how to salvage it to anything remotely useful
> pitti smoser: IIRC, the problem was to define what "the necessary device"
> actually is
> pitti i. e. not just waiting for the root device, which we've done with
> udev's wait-for-root since 2006 or so
> pitti so if someone actually wants to use it, it's just a plain
> sleep(given_number) in the initramfs ATM, as there is no other definition of
> what it should do
Martin, there may not be any sort of definition upstream in Debian for
what this did, but it has well-established semantics in Ubuntu that this
is the *maximum* time that the initramfs should wait for the root device
to be available, and if the timeout is hit the initramfs should drop you
to a shell; but it should not cause the initramfs to wait longer. So
this is certainly a regression. Can you please follow up on this?
** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)
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