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Subject: Re: PDC20267 + RAID can't find raid device
From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 08:28, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 20:18, Samuel Flory wrote:
> >   One major issue for me is that you can use, and mount both the
> > /dev/ataraid/d0 devices, and the /dev/hd devices.  This makes for lots
> > of fun in the Red Hat installer, and Cerberus.   
> 
> Stupidity management for the superuser is a user space issue in Unix
> systems. If the RH installer does let you do stupid things, please
> bugzilla it.

  Actually I was looking at what it would take to add support for
ataraid in the RH installer.  Is there some simple way to determine that
a device is a part of an ataraid array?  Parsing dmesg makes for some
really ugly and easily broken code.


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