Why are software raid devices being renamed?

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Peter Jones wrote:
> 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.
> 

You do have to talk nice to ioctl. :-)

Alls well that ends well.

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