Bug 456447
Summary: | udev vol_id probe of passive/unreadable devices causes slow bootup | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | John Ruemker <jruemker> | ||||
Component: | udev | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 5.2 | CC: | azelinka, greg.marsden, john.sobecki, jwest, kvolny, pknirsch, sdodson, tao | ||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | udev-095-14.23.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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Previously, the udev helper application 'vol_id' ran several times if a device was unreadable. This caused a massive delay for the bootup process on some machines. With this update, 'vol_id' checks whether a device is readable only once and no longer causes a delay.
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Last Closed: | 2011-01-13 22:59:25 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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Bug Blocks: | 590060 | ||||||
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Description
John Ruemker
2008-07-23 18:24:04 UTC
Created attachment 312503 [details]
vol_id patch for udev-095-14.16
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?". Apple computer requested this patch for Oracle Enterprise Linux as they are seeing these delays with Sun storage using rdac multipathing. please, what hardware can be used to test with? hmm, you might try with a blank cd-rw in a cdrom Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Previously, the udev helper application 'vol_id' ran several times if a device was unreadable. This caused a massive delay for the bootup process on some machines. With this update, 'vol_id' checks whether a device is readable only once and no longer causes a delay. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0073.html |