Re: USB Backup Fails on Raid in recent builds.

On 2014-01-06 11:17, David W Studeman wrote:
> David W Studeman wrote:
>
>
>>
>> I'm a bit baffled as to what could have changed to cause any of these
>> things?
>
> Update. I see that udev creates the links but the one thing that changed
> recently is the mdadm upgrade and the udev rules created by it. Mdadm now
> has two rules sets rather than one from previous versions and there are
> quite a few differences. This was a major mdadm change from the previous
> version according to the documentation.

Yes, the display in status.cgi is related but differently. Fixed in #7203.


> At this point, not having the links by label for root to point to /dev/md0
> doesn't seem to matter much in itself. Should the backup config be changed
> to not look for the root label link in /dev/disk but rather looking at the
> mounts?
>

Using the /dev/disk/by-label/root link is much easier :-)
I'd have to look, but IIRC it is also used elsewhere. Verifying 
available disk space before update comes to mind.


Olaf

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