From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Raid array is not automatically detected. Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:56:39 -0400 Message-ID: <469E6267.9000107@tmr.com> References: <4697E231.3070906@hp.com> <4698D4FC.2060100@tmr.com> <469B7E75.3030907@hp.com> <469B8D05.1080003@dgreaves.com> <469E2626.30204@hp.com> <469E35ED.3040500@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <469E35ED.3040500@dgreaves.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Greaves Cc: Bryan Christ , Justin Piszcz , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown List-Id: linux-raid.ids David Greaves wrote: > > See where it says 'component' ? :) > > I wish mdadm --detail and --examine were just aliases and the output > varied according to whether you looked at a component (eg /dev/sda1) > or an md device (/dev/md0) > > I get that wrong *all* the time... Neil, if you will take that as a suggestion, you can take this as a second. While I have learned to use the correct option most of the time, this is a case where the software can make an unambiguous decision to avoid the human having to stop and think which option is appropriate. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979