From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932098AbXBNAgK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:36:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751478AbXBNAgK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:36:10 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:42390 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751475AbXBNAgJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:36:09 -0500 Message-ID: <45D259DD.7040505@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:37:49 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Ale CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] Can't start MD devices by using /dev/disk/by-id References: <8d158e1f0702131351l3e3e1ae2u71a13de655391fce@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8d158e1f0702131351l3e3e1ae2u71a13de655391fce@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patrick Ale wrote: > Hi chaps, > > I just came home, rebooted my box to git8 and *gasp* a problem :) > > I can't start my MD devices anymore by defining /dev/disk/by-id/* > devices in /etc/mdadm.conf. > > When I do a: mdadm --assemble /dev/md/1 it tells me "No devices found > for /dev/md/1" > When I edit the file /etc/mdadm.conf and change the /dev/disk/by-id/* > to whatever the symbolic links points to in the /dev directory, it > does work. > Just out of curiosity, why did you do this in such a manual way instead of just using the UUID? I would think every time you replace a failed drive you would have to go edit the files all over again. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot