Re: Bug#274859: [help needed] RAID and /dev advice needed

2005-05-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.24.1028 +0200]: > This seems trivial enough. I am running a test now. Seems to work; thanks Peter! Rockin'! -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :pro

Re: Bug#274859: [help needed] RAID and /dev advice needed

2005-05-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.24.0258 +0200]: > > Neil? Is there a good reason for lstat here? It apparently breaks on > > devfs. (Ref. http://bugs.debian.org/274859) > > No, it is a bug. It should be 'stat', not 'lstat'. This seems trivial enough. I am running a test no

Re: [help needed] RAID and /dev advice needed

2005-05-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday May 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > tags 274859 +patch > thanks > > [martin f krafft] > > I checked out the source and opening is not hard... but mdadm also > > creates device nodes and uses S_ISBLK all over the place, so I don't > > really know whether adding a "|| S_ISLNK" will fix i

Re: [help needed] RAID and /dev advice needed

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
tags 274859 +patch thanks [martin f krafft] > I checked out the source and opening is not hard... but mdadm also > creates device nodes and uses S_ISBLK all over the place, so I don't > really know whether adding a "|| S_ISLNK" will fix it. I didn't actually test this, but I honestly don't see w

[help needed] RAID and /dev advice needed

2005-05-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.24.0155 +0200]: > > My (hack) solution is to remove those symlinks and replace them with > > real device nodes (hardlinks don't work). To be able to confine this > Ugly. If you can't fix it correctly then leave it broken. You funny monkey you.