Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:26 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com> [2011.06.26.1634 +0200]:
>> > Search manpage for "partitions".
>>
>> that's odd. i read around each part (man mdadm^M /partitions^M),
>> paragraph back and forwards: no mention of the UUIDs of drive
>> components of an array was clearly evident.
>
> I was not trying to suggest that there was a mention of the UUIDs.
> mdadm's manpage only mentions /proc/partitions; it scans that "file"
> and then looks for UUIDs on each of the listed partitions, building
> a list indexed by UUID [0].
ahh, ok. that's very cool.
> And now it has the list of devices (partitions) that constitute
> individual arrays identified by UUID…
>
> 0. not sure this is the actual implementation…
:)
>> > Please suggest patches if you find the information insufficient.
>>
>> ok. feeling slightly overwhelmed by the task, my lack of
>> knowledge on the detailed workings of mdadm somewhat getting in
>> the way, but i'll do my best.
>
> I'll try my best to provide feedback.
thx.
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