Hi KP

Am 28.12.2015 um 20:43 schrieb kp kirchdoerfer:
> Hi Erich;
> 
> Am Montag, 28. Dezember 2015, 19:59:45 schrieb Erich Titl:
>> Hi KP
>>
>> Am 28.12.2015 um 17:23 schrieb kp kirchdoerfer:
>>> Am Mittwoch, 23. Dezember 2015, 15:30:53 schrieb Erich Titl:
>>>> Hi Andrew
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>     /lib/libuuid.so.1.3.0 and its symbolic links
>>>
>>> It is marked as an feature "for advanced users" and never has been enabled
>>> in busybox, but as part of hdsupp.lrp, which means not having findfs in
>>> busybox, does not allow a judgement if the code snippet in linuxrc is
>>> used or not.
>> If it is not included in busybox all this does not make much sense. It
>> will just not work.
> 
> Yes it will not work out-of-the-box as outlined by David, but it works if one 
> follows the wiki page- hopefully, I haven't checked myself...

It will not work at all unless you have findfs.

>>
>> So why clutter linuxrc with old and broken code?
> 
> I do not consider it as broken code, until I'm proofed wrong.

Unless you have findfs it will not work.

> David invested some work to find a solution for a specific setup/problem:

> 
> "On some systems with multiple disk devices it is not possible to guarantee 
> the order in which these are identified at boot time. The disk which starts 
> out 
> as /dev/sda might become /dev/sdb after a reboot."

I _guess_ this is true if you add hardware. That would not surprise me.
It might be true for USB based boot for different systems.

> 
> As-Is it requires the user to rebuild initrd, which is painful, but we may 
> better improve this than to neglect a problem.

It requires a different busybox. The current one does not provide findfs.

It just puzzles me that nobody ever barfed about it. This makes me think
it was never used.

cheers

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