From: Just Marc <marc@corky.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md126-7
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:17:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4613974A.1050503@corky.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17938.50144.495779.735588@notabene.brown>
Hello Neil,
> Maybe if you tell us what commands you ran, we could explain what you
> did?
> Maybe you did
>
> mdadm -C /dev/bigdev -amd -l6 -n5 /dev/sd[a-e]
>
> As the name "bigdev" doesn't look like "md%d", it will just choose an
> unused number up around 127.
>
>
You were absolutely right, thank you. I was simply missing the device
name when creating the array, something I usually do specify :)
It is a bit odd though that it picks an unused number that high, why
doesn't it start from 0?
Thanks,
Marc
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 15:56 md126-7 Just Marc
2007-04-03 21:15 ` md126-7 Neil Brown
2007-04-04 12:17 ` Just Marc [this message]
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