Re: mdadm-2.3.1 fails to hotadd device

[Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>]

On 08:37, Neil Brown wrote:
> Your '/dev' is a symlink, and mdadm doesn't seem to like that.
> 
> Can you change the 'nftw' call in 'map_dev' in 'util.c' to
> 
> 		nftw("/dev/.", add_dev, 10, FTW_PHYS);
> 
> and see if that helps?

Jup, that does the trick:

	# ./mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/hdd1
	mdadm: re-added /dev/hdd1

> It isn't really the right fix, but it is a quick-and-dirty that might
> work.

Is it considered an invalid configuration to have /dev being a symlink
(to /udev as in my case)?

Thanks
Andre

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