Why are software raid devices being renamed?
John Ellson
ellson at research.att.com
Wed Dec 21 12:07:18 UTC 2005
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Didn't "reply all" originally....my original reply to Mr. Jones is
> below. Sorry for the confusion....
>
> 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?
>>
>> (Also, you're sending mail with reply-to: clydekunkel7734 at redhat.com,
>> which is certainly broken.)
>
> Other folks have seen this also. I believe they have reported in
> 169059. The only thing that I can think that may be influencing this
> besides religious updating with rawhide is that the two systems I am
> having trouble with are multi-boot.
None of the systems that I have with the problem are multiboot.
John
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