On May 22, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik said that if initrd brings up /dev/md0, partitions from other > software RAID devices (e.g. /dev/md7) cannot be brought up since the > above code skips the MAKEDEV call in the case of presence of > /dev/md0. I do not know how the initrd work, but does it actually do this?
> 1 check for another device node, e.g. /dev/md5 and hope that the > initrd only ever configures /dev/md0 I think that this is the best solution. If the initrd only activates the / array then you can check for md1 and md/1. > 2 check for multiple device nodes One should be enough. > 3 check for all device nodes (is 0-15 the standard range?) One should still be enough. > 4 call MAKEDEV regardless of whether devices already exist, if > udev is present Does not work if devfs-style device names are present. -- ciao, Marco
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