> Now, before someone yells at me for being off topic :), does anyone know
> how the Linux software RAID handles it if a new drive was inserted in the
> SCSI system in a device letter preceding a RAID configured for
> autodetection?
yes -- each SB holds information on `this' partition as well as all the
component partitions.
> Is it smart enough to compensate
Sure -- otherwise it wouldn't be usable in any `real' environment.
> or is it going to fail?
No.
> Does anyone know if there any reason why we don't have both absolute and
> relative SCSI device numbering in the kernel? (Other then that no one's
> bothered to write it :))
Do you know of devfs ?
