Why are software raid devices being renamed?

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Wed Dec 21 22:59:20 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 17:08 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:

> Don't want to beat a dead horse, especially when you have the problem 
> identified as a kernel problem (thank you BTW), but, the change in nash 
> from mkinitrd-5.0.10 to -5.0.11 which changed the various open type 
> statements to various coeOpen statements was when the raid renaming 
> problem started for me. Look at comments #39 and #40 of 11/24/05 on 169059.

If the file descriptor being set "close on exec" makes any difference
with what the ioctl that scans raids does, then there's something
really, really broken in that ioctl.

-- 
  Peter




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