[lug] LVM and software raid

Nick Golder nrg at nirgo.net
Tue Oct 17 14:12:24 MDT 2006


On 2006-10-02 22:13 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Perhaps looking at the various device numbers will tell you something. 
> The sd*, md*, and vg* numbers will tell you what the kernel thinks they 
> are and it's probably bad to use if /dev/sdc* is major 8 (a SCSI device 
> rather than software RAID).

Wouldn't I want /dev/sdc* to still have a major id of 8 since it is
still a SCSI device that is a member of a RAID (major id of 9)?  It's
underlying function of being SCSI doesn't change.  Am I confused?

-- 
-Nick Golder



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