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From: Just Marc <marc@corky.net>
Subject: Re: md126-7
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:17:14 +0100
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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