On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:19:36PM +0100, John Robinson wrote: > The device node /dev/sdb1 was turned into a md one - probably 9,127 - > when you started the array, and stopping the array hasn't reverted it. > mknod /dev/sdb1 8 17 would probably have fixed it. Assuming you're using > udev, the /dev/sdb1 device is recreated the next time you reboot, so the > problem goes away. That's exactly right. Thanks for the insight! brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 127 2009-06-10 17:54 /dev/sdb1 > I think mdadm 3.0 would have deleted the device node when the array was > stopped, but mdadm 2.6.x doesn't. Actually, mdadm 3.0 is even smarter than that: # ls -l /dev/sdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-06-12 13:40 /dev/sdb1 # ./mdadm --version mdadm - v3.0 - 2nd June 2009 # ./mdadm --assemble --verbose /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdb4 mdadm: device /dev/sdb1 exists but is not an md array. Cheers, Jody -- 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
