Why are software raid devices being renamed?

[John Ellson]

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