Why are software raid devices being renamed?

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue Dec 20 17:37:01 UTC 2005


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.)
-- 
  Peter




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