On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 10:16 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Just forgot one question, is /dev/sda also shown in /dev tree if dmraid is > used? > thanks > greetings > tpowa That looks logical to me. dmraid is just RAID using the devicemapper/lvm subsystem. When I use LVM on a machine, I will get devicenodes for /dev/sda and such. dmraid can't work without devicenodes for these devices, as it has to be managed by userspace tools.