Re: Problem in detecting RAID device!!

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 12:44:53PM +0530, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
> > (1) is /proc mounted?
>
> Yes, /proc is mounted.
> 
> > (2) are there device entries in /dev ?
>
> Yes.  /dev/rd/c0d0 is present.  When I run "parted /dev/rd/c0d0" it is
> showing the partitions (both 1.4.x and 1.6.x).

Oops!  In 1.6.x, that heuristic hasn't been improve inside the
device probing code.

The relevant function is _probe_proc_partitions() inside linux.c.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure what a good heuristic is.
Basically, we want it to recognize /dev/hda1 as a partition,
but /dev/rd/c0d0 as a device.

Perhaps the regexp /dev/.*[a-z]+[0-9]+[a-z]+[0-9]+ should match
devices?

Anyone forsee any problems, or a better solution?

Cheers,
Andrew