-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:20:32 -0500 Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Right. Too used to udev, I guess... :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZmlKn7DbMsAkQLgRAswwAKCTXFqz5DAFkt0W5A+rawPV2qETywCfV76k q8n779pj7a9DXkLwdJ2WyUk= =nFOz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
