This has been discussed previously on the list:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8778276

But I'm not really clear on a solution here - how do I get udev to
create /dev/md1 for my second raid array.

I found a page that mentioned adding (in debian) the following to
/etc/udev/links.conf:

  M md1           b 9 1

Which appears to work, but given the text at the top of the file:

  # This file does not exist. Please do not ask the debian maintainer
about it.
  # You may use it to do strange and wonderful things, at your risk.

This is probably not the "right" way to do it - not only is that file
Debian-specific (best I can tell), it's, I'm guessing, interpreted by a
script that writes out proper udev rules.

So what's the "right" way to tell udev "hey, I need md1, always" ?

Thanks,
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