Why are software raid devices being renamed?

[John Ellson]

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