On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:18:01PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:47:58 -0500 > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Ah, the mknod call. Yes, you are right. > > > > > > Erik: Recent versions of mdadm supports a new option "auto" to > > > auto-create devices as needed. Perhaps that could be used at least > > > on Debian to avoid hardcoded device names? > > > > I don't think that will help? That's for /dev/md0, not /dev/sd*. > > Right. So what was the problem again with my proposed hack?
mdadm presumably needs to open device nodes in order to find RAID disks. If we don't _create_ the device nodes, it can't _find_ them. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
