On Sun, 2021-06-13 at 14:38 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 5:26 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm 99% certain it's being caused by my external USB dock starting
> > up.
> > See my reply to Ed. The dock is not mounted at boot, but has a
> > BTRFS
> > filesystem that (possibly) the kernel insists on checking before
> > the
> > rest of the startup can proceed. This is speculation at the moment.
> > 
> > systemd-analyze blame shows a long delay in a unit I created to
> > automatically power down the dock if it's not mounted:
> > 
> > $ systemd-analyze blame|head
> > 4min 18.016s dock-watch.service
> >      30.517s systemd-udev-settle.service
> >      15.273s logrotate.service
> >       6.274s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
> >       5.765s raid.mount
> >       5.452s plymouth-quit-wait.service
> >       5.038s akmods.service
> >       4.541s upower.service
> >       4.427s sssd.service
> > 
> > I've uploaded the dock-watch unit and the scripts it calls,
> > together
> > with the automount unit, to:
> > 
> > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BT5w4u7TzBmWbhx97sWvfOErCIUylrik?usp=sharing
> 
> dock-wait script contains:
> RAID=/dev/sdd
> 
> This may not be reliable because /dev nodes frequently change between
> reboots. You're better off using /dev/disk/by-... any of them are
> better than node. You can use label, uuid, wwn, whatever.
> 
> I actually use a udev rule for idle spin down:
> 
>  $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/69-hdparm.rules
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", \
>   KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]", \
>   ENV{ID_SERIAL_SHORT}=="WDZ47F0A", \
>   RUN+="/usr/sbin/hdparm -B 100 -S 252 /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-
> 0x5000c500a93cae8a"
> $

Good point. I was already nervous about a hard-wired device name though
it hasn't bitten me so far.

poc
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