reassign 301560 mdadm thanks On Mar 26, Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The fix to #294968 moves the original /dev directory from a safe spot > outside of the udev /dev tree to a .static dir inside the udev tree, > only accessable to root. Unfortunately, many programs (such as mdadm) > that use device nodes often directly scan entire the /dev tree > (including subdirs) to find all relevant devices. This causes the This is a bad idea. Walking /dev is not an hardware detection method. I do not use mdadm on my RAID systems, but I will be happy to discuss alternative solutions with its maintainer. > Please move the static /dev tree outside of the udev created tree. You never No, because past experience showed that this will break other things and annoy a different class of people. So far I have found their arguments more convincing than your. > know what program will scan all of /dev to find relevant devices, and .static You are the first to report one. -- ciao, Marco
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