[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#510367: Bug#510367: initscripts: checkfs.sh runs before /etc/modules processed

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Arthur Marsh]
> After manually observing a reboot, it appears that although module
> eata is successfully loaded before filesystems are checked, the
> device files for the SCSI disk are created asynchronously, in my
> case after the filesystem check script has attempted to check the
> filesystems on the SCSI disk.

Right.  So you have been hit by the introduction of asynchronous
behaviour of the Linux kernel.  I have no good idea how to solve it.
We need to make the early boot system asynchronous too to avoid such
problems.  It also affect USB disks and other busses with slow
discovery process. :(

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen