Am 06.12.2011 20:21, schrieb m.roth@xxxxxxxxx: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 06.12.2011 19:28, schrieb m.roth@xxxxxxxxx: >>> We're just using Linux software RAID for the first time - RAID1, and the >>> other day, a drive failed. We have a clone machine to play with, so it's >>> not that critical, but.... >>> >>> I partitioned a replacement drive. On the clone, I marked the RAID >>> partitions on /dev/sda failed, and remove, and pulled the drive. > <snip> >>> several iterations, I waited a minute or two, until all messages had >>> stopped, and there was only /dev/sdb*, and then put the new one in... >>> and it appears as /dev/sdc. >> >> the device name is totally uninteresting, the IDs are >> mdadm /dev/mdx --add /dev/sdex > > No, it's not uninteresting. I can't be sure that when it reboots, it won't > come back as /dev/sda. And the few places I find that have howtos on > replacing failed RAID drives don't seem to have run into this issue with > udev (I assume) and /dev/sda. IT IS UNINTERESTING try it! you can switch the disks of a software-raid even between different device-types because they are identified by UUID and so /dev/sdx does not matter it does even not matter in a non-raid as long the referenced per UUID in /etc/fstab
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