Hi Everyone,

Here is a fix I found on the internet for a problem I was having with mdadm.

Problem:
When installing Zenwalk 7.0 with sw (mdadm v3.1.4) raid (raid 1 and 0 in my case) my md(x) device show up as md(xxx).

example,
you create a raid device using mdadm (raid1, 2x hdd, sda1+sdb1)

# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 –raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1

when I check or reboot my pc, raid device “md0” show up as “md125” last digit seem to change from reboot to reboot, because of this I cannot mount this device with “fstab” I also had problems with “lilo” because of this.

Solution:
I found this fix on internet …....
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638532#c1

Stop your raid device(s) and assemble them with “--update=super-minor”

#mdadm -S /dev/md125
#mdadm -A /dev/md0 --update=super-minor
According to author/developer this is a bug in mdadm v3.1.4 apparently it has been fix in v3.1.5 .
http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm

Conclusion:
Above solution works for raid 1 and 0 (I don't have level 5)

hope this is helpful.....


Pat.