Problems with SCSI devices renaming...
From: Martin Clauss <hidden>
Date: 2004-10-19 14:47:40
Hi all,
i got a problem with my raid. Current setup:
raiddev /dev/md/0
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 10
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target2/lun0/part1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target3/lun0/part1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target4/lun0/part1
raid-disk 4
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target8/lun0/part1
raid-disk 5
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target9/lun0/part1
raid-disk 6
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target10/lun0/part1
raid-disk 7
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target11/lun0/part1
raid-disk 8
device /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target12/lun0/part1
raid-disk 9
This works very fine so far. But when I attach an additional device to this
DEC Storage Device, I get an additional target on this SCSI bus. Now this
doesn't matter for the devfs names, but the superblock of the RAID saves
major/minor numbers that are wrong now. So the raid won't start anymore....
Shouldn't autodetect handle exactly this problem? (Yes, partition type is
linux raid autodetect for all raid disks...)
I guess, this should be a quite common problem, so I hope to find some
answers here.
Greetz,
Martin Clauss