On Tuesday July 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why to test for udev at all? If the device does not exist, regardless > > if udev is running or not, it might be a good idea to try to create it. > > Because IT IS NEEDED, period. Whenever the operation fails or not, and > > Perhaps it was just a typo and you damage more if you just create it. > Typical behaviour is to *not* just create device nodes because they > don't exist but instead assume administrators know what they do. > That's why I personally think it's better to rely on administrator's > decision about automatic creation of device nodes.
Yes, the typo issue is a real one. But so is the frustration with devices not appearing where you would expect. I think I'm leaning towards auto-creating names if they look like standard names (or are listed in mdadm.conf?), but required auto=whatever to create anything else. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
