From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: best practice when using removable drives and USB enclosure?
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:50:32 +1300
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Tim Bostrom wrote:

> SO..... I don't anticipate changing drives in and out of the last two
> open slots of my USB enclosure, but what would be the best practice
> for making sure md1 comes up at boot all the time without having to
> manually go into mdadm.conf and modify it back to /dev/sdh1 and
> /dev/sdi1 when I put a drive in the open drive slots?

Just remove the devices= entry; it is redundent when you are using UUID's.

mdadm.conf

ARRAY   /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4
UUID=cdaba8bd:80943c6a:ab2fedca:3ef56cfb
ARRAY   /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2
UUID=649526d8:828a57b4:ab2fedca:3ef56cfb


Regards,

Richard