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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Timeout problems with "blkid" applet
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-27 20:04:28
Message-ID: 1158166a0906271304t75ac2903pc83436a0acfa25fb () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Alexander
Griesser<alexander.griesser@lkh-vil.or.at> wrote:
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> Hey,
>
> I noticed a strange timeout issue with the "new" blkid applet.
> When running "blkid" on a busybox system (v1.13.1 and older versions
> too) where _NO_ floppy drive is connected (f.ex. Thinclients) or where
> the floppy drive needs some special kernel parameters, the command takes
> ages to complete.
>
> In dmesg I can then see entries like:
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> ...
>
> On the Thinkpad Notebooks I worked around that by adding
> "floppy=thinkpad" to the kernel command line, but that is not a proper
> solution because my desktop "blkid" does not have the problem, so there
> must be something wrong in the device enumeration or something like
> that.

I decided to disable floppy scanning by blkid at all.
It is extremely unlikely people actually want to match
filesystems *on floppies* by UUID and such.
--
vda
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