Re: devfs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 00:15:37 +0100 (BST)


> What would the effect of this be for changing/adding disks on a
> metadevice? In my experience, systems large enough for it to be an
> issue have a disk in the RAID fail more often then a controller, or
> you need to add more capacity to the system. Using uuid's wouldn't
> help at all, since they are based on the partitions, not on the disk
> itself.

MD itself should be using uuids for the case you describe

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