hello, i attach two patches for mdadm 1.8.0
the first one adds an auto=dev parameter rationale: udev does not create /dev/md* device files, so we need a way to create them when assembling the md device. auto=yes allocates the first free minor number, so mdadm -A --auto=yes /dev/md2 .... yelds a weird result if /dev/md2 is the first device created (it would use 0 as minor) here comes auto=dev which would use the standard minor number for /dev/md2.
the second one fixes creation of stacked devices.
it adds a missing close(mdfd) in mdadm.c that caused the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl in load_super to fail if the device was created
in the same mdadm run. (* This is very important to fix *)
It also modifies load_conffile in config.c to recreate the device list at each run if "partition" is given as config file or appears in a DEVICE line. This allows "DEVICE partition" to consider md devices created during the same run of mdadm, removing the need to add "/dev/md??" to the DEVICE line to enable stacked devices.
Regards, L.
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