From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Subject: Linux software RAID vs. udev Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:25:58 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4092FCA6.2020103@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Reply-To: kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I'm switching my boxes over to udev and fully hotplug-driven /dev directories. However, that means by default I only have /dev/md0 from the MD driver, and if I want to "mdadm --assemble" any other array I have to manually create the device node for it first. Is there any chance that mdadm is going to learn how to assemble an array without having the device node for it already present? If so, then the starting of the array would get the device node created (since it would be a new block device) and everything would be happy... (Please keep my address in the CC list, I'm not subscribed)