On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 07:59:03PM +0200, Erik Agsjö wrote: > I'm successfully running a SIL 3112 dmraid mirrored configuration since > months, but I have just recently started using the mirror from Windows. > > I started out using a home-brewed initrd setup on linuxfromscratch and > then switched to gentoo using gerte's excellent livecd and init scripts. > > Now, each time I boot linux after having run a Windows (XP) session, the > device names have changed! I can manage to get everything up and running > by using the provided shell and figuring out the new boot device name, > then fixing fstab and grub.conf afterwards. > > I have found out that the sil incarnation_no seems to increase by two > everytime I run Windows. What is the incarnation_no used for, and why is > it used to create the device name? Erik, because most of the ATARAID formats don't keep names for the RAID sets/devices, I need to make up a name from other members of the metadata and I chose the timestamp and incarnation # to derive the name from for the sil metadata format handler, not knowing that the closed source Windows driver changes that # every time. Looks like removing the incarnation # form the name generation makes sense... Any comments on this ? > > /Erik > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
