On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:12:56AM +0100, David Greaves wrote: > (back on list for google's benefit ;) and because there are some good > questions and I don't know all the answers... )
Thanks, I didn't realize I didn't 'reply-all' to stay on the list. > Hopefully it will snowball as people who use it then contribute back > <hint> ;) I will, I'm also keeping notes and changes to the man page. :) > --auto md Ah. Thanks for the example(s). > >Also, when I use "--create /dev/nicename --auto=p1" (for example), I > >also see /dev/md_d126 created. Why? There is then a /sys/block/md_d126 > >entry (presumably created by the md driver), but no /sys/block/nicename > >entry. Why? > Not sure who creates this, mdadm or udev I'm guessing the kernel's md driver creates it; neither mdmadm nor udev (just as the kernel creates, for example, sd* disk entries in /sys, but udev creates the nice entries in /dev). > The code isn't that hard to read and you sound like you'd follow it if > you fancied a skim-read... I read it for the --create option to see who created /dev/mdXX. :) I'll take another look. Thanks David. Cheers. - 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
