Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2022. febr. 21., H
12:34):

>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This week, I'd like to try the following to see if we could get past
> > this:
> >
> > 1. Do the experiment again, now a 'rootdelay=20' kernel parameter was
> > added to Berlin's config.  This may well be enough.
> >
> > 2. In case mounting the RAID 10 Btrfs root partition still fails with
> > missing drive errors, try the following workaround suggested in the
> > #btrfs channel, which forces a 'btrfs device scan' on each device of the
> > array, with the following mount option:
> >
> > "device=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3,/dev/sdd3,/dev/sde3,/dev/sdf3"
> >
> > To make it more convenient to experiment with different values for the
> > rootdelay or add the device option above, I'm planning to 'guix system
> init'
> > with the following patch applied: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40998,
> > which allows providing 'rootflags' directly from the kernel command line
> > (thus by editing the GRUB config at boot).
>
> Good work, Maxim!  Your persistence is admirable.
>
> > I'll try to synchronize with Ricardo in the channel and hope they
> > weren't too frightened by our last experiment to not shy away from
> > trying again :-).
>
> We can make another attempt this week.  Do we need to sync anything
> before trying again?  Also: would be nice if we could do “guix system
> init” without copying everything again and again whenever we try again…
>
> My toddler has been pretty sick for the past couple of days, and I
> haven’t slept enough to be using my brain without hand-holding :) I’ll
> try to be around long enough in the eaerly evenings to see to it that
> the server reboots fine, but if things go awfully sideways I just cannot
> commit to riding the bike to the data centre.  Let’s hope it will just
> work fine with your changes to the initrd.
>

Sorry to hear that, hope they get better soon. I there is anything I can
help, besides taking the the bike to the dc which is a bit far from here
feel free to contact me.

Regards, g_bor

>
> See you later on IRC — I gotta have a nap :)
>
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> Ricardo
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