On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 07:21:08AM -0600, Ewan Grantham wrote: > The problem is that currently md doesn't think it's talking to a group > of cloop devices, it thinks it's talking to "real" devices (cbod to be > exact) that are hosting ext3 partitions. Well, in a very good sense no block device is anymore "real" than anything else. As far as md knows, a block device is a block device. Whether the actual backing storage is a disk or some software block device is immaterial. If your arrays are assembled via UUIDs, things will probably just work. If they are assembled via devices, you will probably have to change the command line to assemble them. The hitches with software devices are only in making sure that the devices are active before assembling the array. So for cloop, you'll just need to start the devs before assembling your md. -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 - 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
