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Re: Please explain status/background of /dev/mdX versus /dev/md/X



On Tuesday 22 April 2008, martin f krafft wrote:
> > What we do for new RAID devices is:
> > mdadm --create /dev/md/$MD_NUM --auto=yes --force -R -l <type> <dev
> > spec>
>
> That's the problem. You should be able to change that to md/$MD_NUM
> and then just use mdX everywhere without much trouble.

I suspect that should have read /dev/md$MD_NUM.

> Yes, I think /dev/mdX for now should do.

I'm inclined to agree and will see what's needed. Should be fairly trivial.

> In the long-run, /dev/md/* 
> might be cleaner. However, to get there, it has to be default, and
> when it is, I have to provide a migration path. Yay!

:-)

Thanks for the quick replies.
I'll wait a bit to see if Neil has anything to add.

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