On Friday May 26, bluca@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:39:26AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > >Presumably you have a 'DEVICE' line in mdadm.conf too? What is it. > >My first guess is that it isn't listing /dev/sdd? somehow. > > Neil, > i am seeing a lot of people that fall in this same error, and i would > propose a way of avoiding this problem > > 1) make "DEVICE partitions" the default if no device line is specified. As you note, we think alike on this :-) > 2) deprecate the "DEVICE" keyword issuing a warning when it is found in > the configuration file Not sure I'm so keen on that, at least not in the near term. > 3) introduce "DEVICEFILTER" or similar keyword with the same meaning at > the actual "DEVICE" keyboard If it has the same meaning, why not leave it called 'DEVICE'??? However, there is at least the beginnings of a good idea here. If we assume there is a list of devices provided by a (possibly default) 'DEVICE' line, then DEVICEFILTER !pattern1 !pattern2 pattern3 pattern4 could mean that any device in that list which matches pattern 1 or 2 is immediately discarded, and remaining device that matches patterns 3 or 4 are included, and the remainder are discard. The rule could be that the default is to include any devices that don't match a !pattern, unless there is a pattern without a '!', in which case the default is to reject non-accepted patterns. Is that straight forward enough, or do I need an order allow,deny like apache has? Thanks for the suggestion. 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
