thoughts on mdadm and dev node creation

[martin f krafft]

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> [2006.08.18.0914 +0100]:
> > >   (b) udev should thus create /dev nodes, and nothing else
> > 
> > I don't see that.
> 
> The theory is simply that mdadm should not know anything about
> major/minor device numbers anymore.

This on IRC this morning:

10:46:52 < Md> madduck: using (and then deleting) /dev/.tmp-md-xx
may be a workaround until a proper sysfs interface will be
available, but the final goal should be to remove knowledge of
major/minor numbers from mdadm (since sooner or later they will
become dynamic)
10:47:34 < Md> madduck: mdadm can easily check if udev is being used
(test -e /dev/.udev) and switch to the "don't create devices" mode



Also:

10:48:18 < Md> madduck: I do not know much about mdadm.conf (I use
kernel autostart) so I cannot comment on the merits of requiring it.
obviously I'd rather do without more configuration files...



Isn't kernel autostart deprecated? Do you know, Neil?

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