[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#488271: Bug#488271: cryptsetup: use a loop to wait for the root device

[David Härdeman]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 22:03 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Oh, I needed to do some investiagtions about that file, it has been
>> submitted by you as #414842. However, that particular patch has not been
>> applied to ubuntu's udev.
>> 
>> Scott, can you have a look at this patch:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=udev-support_rootdelay.patch;att=1;bug=414842
>> 
>> Is that acceptable for ubuntu?
>> 
>No.
>
>We already have a loop in mountroot() to deal with this problem, it
>waits until the root device is actually available before proceeeding.

Which is after all initramfs scripts have already had their chance of 
executing.

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David Härdeman