On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:13:32PM +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
>> add --auto=md to the command line
>> or put it in the create line in mdadm.conf
>
> Thanks, that did the trick!
>
> Interesting, it seems now I have 3 devices
> for that raid.
> One is /dev/md127, one is /dev/md/boot, with
> same (major, minor) as md127, and there is a
> third one, /dev/md_boot, which is a symbolic
> link to /dev/md/boot.
>
> /proc/mdstat reports /dev/md127

And so the confusion is perpetuated.  This is *not* accessing a device  
by name.  If I give mdadm a name for my device, I don't want it doing  
*anything* with numbers, creating numbered symlinks, or anything  
else.  In addition, if I tell mdadm to create something in /dev/md/  
(versus it decided all on its own to create something there), then I  
do *NOT* want it creating *anything* in /dev/ that I didn't ask for.   
That, again, adds to the confusion.  Of all of it though, the /proc/ 
mdstat is the worst part as it underscores that the kernel stack is  
not able to think in terms of names instead of numbers.

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