On 2003-06-11T12:27:10,
Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> said:
> One way to get around this problem is to use non-persistent superblocks
> for your arrays and just re-create them at bootup time by calling mkraid
> (or mdadm) after you've correctly identified (using WWID or similar)
> which devices belong to each particular raid set.
The patches I did to multipath in 2.4 went even further: As the md
superblock - this_disk etc - has little meaning for multipath, as they
are all identical, I made the assembly based entirely on the UUID,
ignoring the device nodes completely.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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