Bug#633024: initramfs-tools: Race condition when root filesystem is on a LV and mdadm array

2011-07-13 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Rain Maker wrote: - The rootdelay=X option does as advertised: Also it adds time to scsi device to settle before calling mdadm or lvm thus excluding potential races.. In this situation, I seem to need a delay between assembling mdadm and activating the VG's. sure this

Bug#633024: initramfs-tools: Race condition when root filesystem is on a LV and mdadm array

2011-07-11 Thread Rain Maker
2011/7/8, maximilian attems m...@stro.at: On Fri, 08 Jul 2011, Roel Brook wrote: When booting the system, it seems there is a race condition between assembling .. lvm vgdisplay after running a lvm vgchange -ay tried to use rootdelay=X with a small value? see

Bug#633024: initramfs-tools: Race condition when root filesystem is on a LV and mdadm array

2011-07-08 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011, Roel Brook wrote: When booting the system, it seems there is a race condition between assembling a mdadm array, and scanning and / or activating VGs which have it's PV on this array. I have a mdadm array (ICH9R fakeraid BIOS array), where one of the partitions is a PV.