Bug#526615: fails to install to RAID across virtual (kvm/virtio) disks

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> [2009.07.24.1410 +0200]:
> We currently use in grub-setup ioctl (GET_ARRAY_INFO) and ioctl
> (GET_DISK_INFO) and unfortunately they return the major and minor of the
> device and not the name of the device file.

But you have to somehow map that to the device file later, right?

mdadm-lab:~# ls -la /dev/vda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 0 2009-08-04 13:53 /dev/vda

/dev/vda is a regular device like any other, except that it uses the
'experimental' major number 254. I don't understand why that should
be treated any differently than e.g. a SCSI disk with major number
8.

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