From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: EVMS causing problems with mdadm? Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:02:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20060423220245.GA4050@percy.comedia.it> References: <6d5bedd80604230833m3614f453we869b8bf7261d0e9@mail.gmail.com> <17483.62992.692017.319991@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17483.62992.692017.319991@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:48:00AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: >On Sunday April 23, ewan.grantham@gmail.com wrote: >> Did my latest updates for my Kubuntu (Ubuntu KDE variant) this >> morning, and noticed that EVMS has now "taken control" of my RAID >> array. Didn't think much about it until I tried to make a RAID-1 array >> with two disks I've just added to the system. Trying to do a create >> verbose tells me that device /dev/md1 (or 2 or 3 - I tried a couple >> just to see) doesn't exist. And in fact, there are no block devices >> listed beyond md0. > >Sounds like udev is in use rather than a static /dev. > >Add '--auto=md' to the mdadm command line, and it will create the >devices for you. Or --auto=part if you want partitioned arrays. See >man page for more details. > >I suspect this might need to be come the default in another year or so.... > i was tkinking about stat()ing "/dev/.udev" and automatically enabling --auto if found WDYT? L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \