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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html