From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:02:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:02:18 -0500 Received: from rcum.uni-mb.si ([164.8.2.10]:34057 "EHLO rcum.uni-mb.si") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:02:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:01:29 +0100 From: David Balazic Subject: Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order? To: Linux Kernel ML Cc: Tim Fletcher Message-id: <3A66CD09.F0111CB5@uni-mb.si> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tim Fletcher wrote : > > How does MD/RAID0 know which array should be /dev/md0? What if you had a > > second array on /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd, would that become /dev/md0 (assuming > > it had a kernel/boot sector)? > > /etc/raidtab specifies which drives belong in which array, but I only have > hda and hdc so I can't really answer the question What happens if /dev/md0 is /dev/sda and /dev/sdc ( the system also has sdb ) and sda fails or is removed ? the old sdb will now be sda and old-sdc will be sdb. md0 will look into sda , which is now the non-md disk , and sdc , which doesn't exists any more ??? -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill & Ted - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/