From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Subject: mdadm: use Preferred Minor for non-standard named arrays?
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:57:21 +0200
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Hello,

using non-'standard' names for raid-arrays like /dev/md/root always
leads to (more or less) dynamically assigned device minors 127+.
Wouldn't it be possible to use the Preferred Minor hint from the
array's superblock or the super-minor option from the mdadm.conf?
This would lead to more stable minors and would thus make booting from
such devices a lot easier - especially for lilo systems :)


regards
   Mario
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