On Tuesday April 3, marc@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been using the RAID subsystem quite a bit over the years. This > week, for the first time, I created a RAID6 array over loop devices that > point to files. > > To my surprise the device showing in /proc/mdstat for this new array is > /dev/md127. This is a fresh system and RAID has never been configured > on it. I tried re-doing everything from scratch again and was sometimes > even given /dev/md126 (though I wasn't able to reproduce this one, it > happened once). > > My kernel is 2.6.20.4. Can anyone give me a hint about what's going on? 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. 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
