On Apr 1, 10:40pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
} Subject: RAID Devices and FS labels
> On my home machine today, I decided to change how the filesystems are listed
> in /etc/fstab from the standard /dev/name to FS labels:
>
> LABEL=ROOT / ext2 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=USR /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
... [ deleted ] ...
> Does anyone know how the tools would handle this situation? I'd assume that
> given a list of devices and labels, the RAID devices would come up first, and
> then the individual partitions, but I'm not sure how this works WRT mount,
> fsck, etc.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
As you have already anticipated there are problems associated with
using volume and filesystem label based mounting with RAID1 mirrors.
I can attest from personal experience that you will end up mounting
the underlying physical mirrors rather than the virtual block device.
I had initiated a thread about this a couple of months ago when I ran
into problems trying to get this to work. The issue got batted around
a little and the general consensus was that this is indeed a problem.
There were essentially no good solutions proposed at that time other
than the notion of some heuristics. The overall consensus was that
the /proc/partitions pseudo-file has to either present the /dev/md*
devices first or mount has to explicitly look for labels on them
before considering the actual physical block devices.
Hopefully this information is helpful.
Greg
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