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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:49:05
Message-Id: 321bd4da-2a0b-9a90-eeaf-f8c50489adf8@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how? by Alan Mackenzie
1 On 01/29/2019 09:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
2 > However, there's another quirk which bit me: something in the Gentoo
3 > installation disk took it upon itself to renumber my /dev/md2 to
4 > /dev/md127. I raised bug #539162 for this, but it was decided not to
5 > fix it. (This was back in February 2015.)
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7 I tend to treat the /dev/md<number(s)> to be somewhat fluid, much like I
8 do /dev/sd<letter(s)>. I prefer to use UUID for raw file systems or LV
9 names when using LVM for this reason.
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11 $WORK uses sym-links from persistent names to the actual disk that is
12 currently the desired disk.
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17 Grant. . . .
18 unix || die