(Please reply to debian-boot; reply-to set.) Hi Martin,
Over the past few weeks I've solved several issues in D-I related to the use of /dev/mdX versus /dev/md/X and I've been wondering what the official status is of both as it seems there are at least some inconsistencies. Partman currently prefers the use of /dev/md/X and uses that when creating new RAID devices. This results in both /dev/md/X and /dev/mdX block device files being created. I've been working on the assumption that /dev/md/X is the "newer" form and that the intention is to transition to that. Is that correct? Here are some of the inconsistencies I've noticed: - /dev/mdX and /dev/md/X are created with different permissions - if a new RAID device is created using /dev/mdX, the "new" block device files are _not_ created - 'mdadm --examine --scan --config=partitions' outputs the "old" block device names which again means that the "new" block devices are not created if that is used as input to assemble existing RAID devices Especially the last issue affected partman when the system being installed had a pre-existing RAID partition setup. I've now worked around that in mdcfg by converting old to new using sed before doing the assemble. Could you provide some insight into what the current status is from an mdadm (and maybe kernel) upstream PoV and how the transition is expected to proceed? TIA, Frans
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