On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Alexander Griesser<[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey, > > I noticed a strange timeout issue with the "new" blkid applet. > When running "blkid" on a busybox system (v1.13.1 and older versions > too) where _NO_ floppy drive is connected (f.ex. Thinclients) or where > the floppy drive needs some special kernel parameters, the command takes > ages to complete. > > In dmesg I can then see entries like: > > end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 > Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 > ... > > On the Thinkpad Notebooks I worked around that by adding > "floppy=thinkpad" to the kernel command line, but that is not a proper > solution because my desktop "blkid" does not have the problem, so there > must be something wrong in the device enumeration or something like > that.
I decided to disable floppy scanning by blkid at all. It is extremely unlikely people actually want to match filesystems *on floppies* by UUID and such. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
