On Tuesday November 2, bluca@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >hm, OK. So perhaps using /dev/mdX as a control channel for creating and > >destroying /dev/mdX was unfortunate design. Ho hum. > > would it be unfeasible to create a custom (misc) character device, say > /dev/mdadm and use that to control arrays instead of /dev/md0? > Sure it would. Though I would rather so sort of filesystem interface. But it is unreasonable to remove the current interface without a reasonable transition period. So the current code needs to be made to work. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
