Why are software raid devices being renamed?
John Ellson
ellson at research.att.com
Tue Dec 20 18:57:55 UTC 2005
Peter Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:48 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>
>> Since about mkinitrd-5.0.11, software raidsets are being created in /dev
>> during initrd with the name /dev/md_dn where n is the number of the
>> raidset instead of /dev/mdn. This is causing all sorts of problems from
>> the worst being kernel panics and the least being raidsets not being
>> mounted in fstab.
>>
>
> You're still the *only* person I've seen reporting this. Are you sure
> something else in your environment hasn't changed?
>
>
Not so. And I can reproduce the bug on 4 software raid boxes - 3 i686
and 1 x86_64.
See bug# 169059
John
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