device names

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:04:11AM -0800, Adrian Sandor wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just installed dmraid and set up my sata raid 0
> array with kernel 2.6.9, controller is Intel ICH5(R?),
> and I'm thrilled :) I'd like to congratulate the
> author for this very good piece of software!

Thanks :)

> 
> There is only one thing that annoys me: the name of
> the raid device (and thus also partition names) are
> horrible: isw_igefbdigf_RAID isw_igefbdigf_RAID1 etc.
> Is there a way to rename them?

Because I need to derive device names from some unique information
in the (cryptic) vendor specific metadata, I end up with such more or less
cryptic, native names derived from magic numbers and such.

The way to work around those is to create symlinks for your convenience.
E.g. tweak your initscript to create
/dev/ataraid/'DeviceName' -> /dev/mapper/isw_igefbdigf_RAID.

I've put up this issue on the TODO list already (i.e. support for mapping
native to user supplied names on the command line or in a config file).

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

> 
> Thanks
> Adrian
> 
> P.S. If an admin is reading this, have you considered
> adding the list to gmane.org?
> 
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