Software RAID1 and udev

bujecas · 10-30-2006, 10:57 AM

Hello,

I have a Debian Sarge running on a Asus Server with 2 hard disks. I configured software RAID1 with the mdadm tool. I use udev to manage the system devices. When I remove a hard disk (in this case /dev/sdb), the system removes it from the RAID array and the udev deletes the /dev devices. My is problem is when I plug the hard disk again. The udev instead of creating again the /dev/sdb, it will create /dev/sdc. The raid array won't recover and I think it's because of the changing of letter of the device.

Any help? Thanks.

Dutch Master · 10-31-2006, 03:58 AM

Did you plug in that HDD in exactly the same connector? Did you reboot between removing and adding the disk? If not, the kernel still thinks that there is a sdb disk attached and assigns sdc to the newly inserted disk.

bujecas · 10-31-2006, 04:35 AM

Well, the hard disks are hotpluggable, so no reboot needs to be made. When I hotplug it again, the udev creates /dev/sdc.