Re: How to recover from massive disk failure

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On Friday November 10, jacob@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thank you very much for the quick answer!
> 
> One last one...
> 
> This is how my entry in mdadm.conf look:
> DEVICE /dev/sd[bcdefg]1
> ARRAY /dev/md5 level=raid5 num-devices=6 
> UUID=a4a5dae9:04a09c3a:cd3fd7be:b754f4fe 
> devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1,/dev/sdg1
> 
> Do the order of the devices matter?

No, but it is best not to have them.
i.e. get rid of the "devices=" bit and change the DEVICE line to
   DEVICE /dev/sd?1
SCSI device names can change if the hardware config changes, and you
want mdadm to find the devices no matter where they are.

NeilBrown
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