More than 255 raid devices

[martin f krafft]

Hi,

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also sprach J D Freeman <info at contextshift.co.uk> [2006.09.01.1522 +0200]:
> brains:~# mknod /dev/1000 b 9 1000
> brains:~# ls -al /dev/md1000
> brw-r--r-- 1 root root 9, 1000 2006-09-01 13:58 /dev/md1000
> brains:~# mdadm -C /dev/md1000 -l 1 -n 3 /dev/vg01/testvg /dev/vg02/testvg missing
> mdadm: error opening /dev/md1000: No such device or address

Does this generate any output in dmesg?

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