Bug#336514: yaird: falls down when new scsi/sata disks are added
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:18:01PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:47:58 -0500
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > Ah, the mknod call. Yes, you are right.
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> > > Erik: Recent versions of mdadm supports a new option "auto" to
> > > auto-create devices as needed. Perhaps that could be used at least
> > > on Debian to avoid hardcoded device names?
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> > I don't think that will help? That's for /dev/md0, not /dev/sd*.
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> Right. So what was the problem again with my proposed hack?
mdadm presumably needs to open device nodes in order to find RAID
disks. If we don't _create_ the device nodes, it can't _find_ them.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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