[Bug 573773] [NEW] ext4 slow mounting at boot

[Mike Yates]

Public bug reported:

While 2.6.31-21 booted just fine (with exactly the same arguments etc)
2.6.32-21 froze every time, usually after starting Busybox but before offering a rescue shell.
It has been cured by moving the rootfs line to the very top of /etc/fstab
(I had previously sorted my many test drives and partitions in physical order, / = /dev/sdb5, ext4)

Among the many messages briefly (another bug) visible at boot, was "slow mounting, try bootdelay".
Others were "failed to mount dev on /root/dev" (also proc and sys) which is perhaps mistyped?

In this event, surely, a total lockup should not occur and constitutes a bug.
Also, the kernel boot messages could be designed to be more informative.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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ext4 slow mounting at boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573773
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