From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752738Ab0JGXt2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 19:49:28 -0400 Received: from smtp12.ono.com ([62.42.230.20]:34991 "EHLO resmaa12.ono.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752969Ab0JGXtJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 19:49:09 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 350 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:49:09 EDT Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 01:43:18 +0200 From: "J.A. =?ISO-8859-1?B?TWFnYWxs824=?=" To: Linux Kernel Subject: Strange raid device numbering Message-ID: <20101008014318.04d7ded1@werewolf.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi... I'm running kernel 2.6.36-rc6. I have just built a simple raid0 array with two disks, and I followed what I had always done: raid=/dev/md0 ndisk=2 disks="/dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1" block=4 chunk=256 stride=$((chunk/block)) stripe=$((stride*ndisk)) for i in $disks do mdadm --zero-superblock --force $i done mdadm -C -f -v $raid --level=0 --chunk=$chunk -n $ndisk $disks sleep 5 mdadm -S $raid mdadm --assemble $raid $disks mkfs.ext4 -b $((block*1024)) -E stride=$stride,stripe-width=$stripe $raid Strangely, after I reboot, the system insists in numbering it as md127, instead of md0. Why ? How can I force it to be md0 ? (its half aesthetics, half curiosity...) TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free