Arne Jansen wrote: > > The main reason why I'm trying this weird setup is that the USB > drive is always enumerated last in my kernel, and I want to boot > from it. That means every time I add a disk or remove one I have > to edit grub.conf and fstab. Very inconvenient. So my idea was > to create a single device md on it and leave it to the autodetection > to find the device. So I never have to edit /etc/fstab again for > a simple hardware change and I'm independent of any enumeration > changes in future kernel releases. > > But unfortunately it doesn't work :-( Sorry not to answer your main question but why not use labels in your USB device partitions and use the labels in your fstab. This will make it so it doesn't matter which dev file it uses. Steve - 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