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Re: pinning down dk? assignment



In article <julcud$9sd$1%serpens.de@localhost>,
Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
>
>Let wd1 disappear and the raid will try to use wd0a (dk0) and sd0a (dk1).
>Of course raidframe will notice the mismatch in this case, but you can
>easily imagine more complex scenarios where it doesn't. But a simple
>failure case comes from trying to recover the failed wd1 without
>rebooting. When you replace the drive it may attach as wd1 but then
>as dk2. Now try to teach raidrame that its component changed the path.

That works too because the components are not signed. Actually this
is the exact failure I got because wd0 was not found because of the
latest ata changes!

christos



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