On Feb 19, 6:21pm, "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
} Subject: Re: Drive name slips...
> Hi,
Good afternoon Stephen, pleasant to hear from you.
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 07:28:24 -0600, greg@wind.enjellic.com
> (G.W. Wettstein) said:
>
> > The only problem with this is that at least in the late 2.2.x kernels
> > UUID or volume label mounting breaks when the filesystems in question
> > are on a RAID1 mirror.
>
> Well, as long as you are using the current raid code, it's not a problem
> --- the raid-0.90 drivers will autodetect raid partitions at boot time
> and will find all of the live mirrors regardless of their device names.
> They then use the information in the raid superblocks to reestablish the
> correct /dev/md* devices without any need to consult /etc/raidtab at
> all, so they guarantee a constant device name for you without any fstab
> or devfs trickery required at all.
That is correct, but this would imply that a person would be required
to use the actual /dev/md* device in /etc/fstab rather than UUID or
volume label mounting.
If nothing else the mount documentation needs to be updated to warn
people of the possible problems associated with using UUID or volume
label mounting with RAID1.
> Cheers,
> Stephen
Have a pleasant weekend.
Greg
}-- End of excerpt from "Stephen C. Tweedie"
As always,
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