From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: Strange RAID behaviour when faced with user error Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:23:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4A303254.8060106@anonymous.org.uk> References: <20090610215835.GA4936@clouds> <4A303178.5060208@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A303178.5060208@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jody McIntyre Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 10/06/2009 23:19, I wrote: > The device node /dev/sdb1 was turned into a md one - probably 9,127 - > when you started the array, and stopping the array hasn't reverted it. Or possibly /dev/sdb1 was turned into a symlink to /dev/md127. > mknod /dev/sdb1 8 17 would probably have fixed it. Sorry, mknod /dev/sdb1 b 8 17, after removing the symlink if that's what it is. > Assuming you're using > udev, the /dev/sdb1 device is recreated the next time you reboot, so the > problem goes away. Cheers, John.