Re: /proc/partitions not done updating when init is ran?

[Nick Bartos]

No, it is 2.4.25-pre7.  I could technically go to 2.6.x, but it would take
a bit of work due to some other changes.  I would really like to get this
stable in 2.4.x.

What is nbd?


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> Is that happening in 2.6.2-rc3-mm1 or up?
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> If yes, try unsetting nbd in your kernel config.
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> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Nick Bartos wrote:
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>> I have a problem where it does not look like /proc/partitions is updated
>> completely by the time init is ran.
>>
>> Basically I am booting from a usb flash device, and when I try to run
>> fsck
>> on the device on boot (using LABEL=, which is necessary since the actual
>> device cannot be assumed in my config) it fails.  After further
>> investigation /proc/partitions does not contain any scsi partitions
>> right
>> when init is starting, but if I do a "sleep 10" before running fsck then
>> it works fine.
>>
>> I can of course put that sleep in there but that is ugly and I have no
>> way
>> of knowing the maximum delay, so if it took too long then it would not
>> work and I would be screwed...
>>
>> Isn't /proc/partitions supposted to be finished updating when init
>> starts?
>>  If this is not a kernel bug (or it won't be fixed for a while), then
>> what
>> is the deal and how can I fix this cleanly?
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