Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 06.12.2011 19:28, schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us: >> We're just using Linux software RAID for the first time - RAID1, and the >> other day, a drive failed. We have a clone machine to play with, so it's >> not that critical, but.... >> >> I partitioned a replacement drive. On the clone, I marked the RAID >> partitions on /dev/sda failed, and remove, and pulled the drive. <snip> >> several iterations, I waited a minute or two, until all messages had >> stopped, and there was only /dev/sdb*, and then put the new one in... >> and it appears as /dev/sdc. > > the device name is totally uninteresting, the IDs are > mdadm /dev/mdx --add /dev/sdex No, it's not uninteresting. I can't be sure that when it reboots, it won't come back as /dev/sda. And the few places I find that have howtos on replacing failed RAID drives don't seem to have run into this issue with udev (I assume) and /dev/sda. mark