Bug#611493: Failure on boot during initrd script execution

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 07:37:17AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> | 3. Come up with some way of asynchronous notification of volume groups 
> | being available for activation, and invoke vgchange on this 
> | notification. I clearly don't know about how LVM works internally to 
> | accomplish something like this, an udev hook, perhaps?

this can be done via udev rules.
Ubuntu does so, but it *hardcodes* udev into initramfs and has
it's own races that are no fun either.
 
> Meanwhile, some documentation or other mechanism to help people find
> scsi_mod.scan=sync and rootdelay=20 would be helpful as a stopgap, if
> you have ideas for where it should go.

documented here:
http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug

thanks.

-- 
maks