Hi Mitchell, [...] > (who ??? knows what the hell is going on with udev here....) > [...] > > My question: > > what the heck is > devices=/dev/.static/dev/hdb1 /dev/.static should be bindmounted your old, pre udev/tmpfs mounted /dev directory. AFAIK, udev takes it as sample directory to create the proper device names. Don't ask me why udev sometimes works and sometimes not. After shortly trying it last year on our sever systems, I quickly decided to better not to use it there. On our diskless clients it is really neccessary, but also has *sometimes* issues there, e.g. on about 5 of 45 clients reboots, it forgets to create /dev/pts on those 5 clients. Cheers, Bernd - 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