On Friday April 30, kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com wrote: > I'm switching my boxes over to udev and fully hotplug-driven /dev > directories. > > However, that means by default I only have /dev/md0 from the MD driver, > and if I want to "mdadm --assemble" any other array I have to manually > create the device node for it first. > > Is there any chance that mdadm is going to learn how to assemble an > array without having the device node for it already present? If so, then > the starting of the array would get the device node created (since it > would be a new block device) and everything would be happy... catch-22. mdadm needed the device to pre-exist. That is how the md driver works. Maybe udev needs to be taught to be more open minded about these things. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
