From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI devices renaming... Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:08:10 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041019150810.GA1074@lists.us.dell.com> References: <001201c4b5ea$958f0790$30493c86@clever> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001201c4b5ea$958f0790$30493c86@clever> To: Martin Clauss Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:47:40PM +0200, Martin Clauss wrote: > device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target11/lun0/part1 > device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target12/lun0/part1 > > This works very fine so far. But when I attach an additional device to this > DEC Storage Device, I get an additional target on this SCSI bus. Now this > doesn't matter for the devfs names, but the superblock of the RAID saves > major/minor numbers that are wrong now. So the raid won't start anymore.... > Shouldn't autodetect handle exactly this problem? (Yes, partition type is > linux raid autodetect for all raid disks...) > > I guess, this should be a quite common problem, so I hope to find some > answers here. You want something like udev (2.6 kernels) or devlabel (2.4 kernels, http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml), and to use those names rather than devfs names. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com