Root mount fails again. CAM related?

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Tue Apr 7 20:28:08 PDT 2009


Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:22 AM, pluknet wrote:
> 
>>> My ARM board boots from a USB mass storage device and
>>> for the second time the the root mount fails. First is
>>> was because the root mount wouldn't wait for the USB
>>> stack to complete the discovery process. Now CAM seems
>>> to have entered the picture:
>>>
> 
>> Can this be a similar one? That was committed not far ago in rev. 190676.
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-April/005635.html
> 
> It could be the cause of the problem. Things worked fine
> before CAM grew calls to root_mount_hold()...
> 

Feel free to back the change out of CAM.  I don't have time to go
through and explain why it was a poor idea in the first place, nor
to figure out what in USB is broken.

Scott



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