Re: fixup_slot failed to find slot....

"Peter T. Breuer" <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:39:52 +0100 (MET)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.enbd.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Also sprach scunacc:"
> So, can I create /dev/nda - /dev/nd*n* ? To get 14 devices?

As many as you like - there is a script for that (MAKEDEV in the
archive), I ought to mention. You need to remember the subdevices too -
enbd devices are partitionable and they need the subdevices.

> I did that (added to MAKEDEV) - it appeared to work - connections were
> apparently made

They are made or they ain't - no imbetween.

> - but then mdadm did not work on top of it.

mdadm?  You mean soft raid?  Soft raid works fine on any block devices -
including enbd. I use it all the time! Please indicate what you mean
there ... there is a special FR1 driver (fast raid 1) for enbd. And
also a FR5 (though it doesn't do as much). At the very least you want
to patch the kernel for FR1 even if you don't use it, as that adds an
ioctl to the MD layer that enbd can use to talk to it with and tell it
all its pains ...

Peter