[LCFC] templates://mdadm/{mdadm.templates}

[Neil Brown]

On Sunday January 27, bubulle at debian.org wrote:
> Quoting Esko Arajärvi (edu at iki.fi):
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > On Saturday 26 January 2008, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf
> > > templates for mdadm.
> > 
> > There's something funny in the end of the first template string.
> >  Please enter a space-separated list of devices, 'all', or 'none'. You may
> >  omit the leading '/dev/' and just enter e.g. "md0 md1", or "md/1 md/d0".
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure how that should be fixed, so no patch attached. Maybe the 
> > last quote should just be "md/1 md/0"? (Extra "d" removed.)
> 
> 
> Well, that's apparently an error that was already in the original
> templates.
> 
> Let's CC mdadm maintainers.
> 
> I think the fix is remonving the extra "d". So that's what I will
> adopt in my bug report if no objection comes.

There is no error here.

/dev/md1  is a non-partitionable array (major number 9).
/dev/md/1 is another name for the same thing.
/dev/md_d1 is a partitionable array (dynamic major number).
/dev/md/d1 is another name of the same thing.

So while the examples might be confusing, they are not incorrect.

NeilBrown