On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:39:31PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > mdadm could probably be changed to be able to remove the device > anyway. The only difficulty is: how do you tell it which device to > remove", given that there is no name in /dev to use. > Suggestions? Major:minor? If /sys/block still holds an entry for the removed disk, then the user can figure it out from the name. Or mdadm could just accept a path under /sys/block instead of a device node. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- - 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