Re: [Bug-grub] Re: GRUB and RAID 1--discs out of sync after install

[Gerard W. Patterson]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:02:03AM +1100, Jason Thomas wrote:
> looks like your using devfs which is why the '/' is in front of the '0',
> if you look /dev there should be a directory 'md' containing the device
> '0'.
> 
Hmm, you are correct in that devfs support is compiled into the kernel.  I
am not mounting it at boot time (in fact not mounting it at all) but when I
did mount to another point, there was a md directory and a whole lot of
nodes were available including zero.  I didn't think the kernel would use it
if it (devfs) wasn't mounted.

> when you type mount it looks in /etc/mtab for the information so you
> seeing different stuff to whats in /proc.mounts  you might like to check
> that you don't have a typo in your fstab, that might explain the
> '/dev/mo0', or there could be bug in the devfs daemon, which is a
> package you probably have installed on your system.

Crap!  You were right.  It was set to /dev/mo0...sigh.  I am guessing since
devfs is compiled into it, the kernel will start using it to describe the
devices passed to it.

I say this because the second md device (md1) doesn't appear as /dev/md/1 it
shows up as /dev/md1 under the /proc/mounts entry.

Thanks again for your insight.

Regards,

  Gerry

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