The raidtools-0.90-6 rpm (and previous) installs its devices with different permissions than the scsi and ide devices. I.e. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 May 5 1998 /dev/hda1 vs. brw------- 1 root root 9, 0 Feb 7 2000 /dev/md0 brw------- 1 root root 9, 1 Feb 7 2000 /dev/md1 So, whenever we want to back up an md device we have to go in and chown the devices to be the same as the hd/sd disks (we do backups as a group disk user). Please update the RPM to install the md devices with the same permissions as the other devices on which one puts file systems. In a large installation like ours, the current scheme is a hassle. Thanks -- Dave Thompson <thomas.edu> Associate Researcher Department of Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~thomas 1210 West Dayton Street Phone: (608)-262-1017 Madison, WI 53706-1685 Fax: (608)-262-6626 --
The md devices are being moved into the dev package. The permissions in the dev package in Raw Hide (ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/rawhide/) are consistent. Thanks!