I have a raid1 comprised of a local physical device (/dev/sda) and a network block device (/dev/nbd0). When the machine hosting the network block device comes up, however, it creates /dev/md127. Why? On the machine hosting the network block device, /dev/sdb is what backs /dev/nbd0. This is physical storage for /dev/nbd0: frank:~ # mdadm --examine /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : cf24d099:9e174a79:2a2f6797:dcff1420 Name : turnip:11 Creation Time : Mon Dec 15 07:06:13 2008 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 160086384 (76.34 GiB 81.96 GB) Array Size : 156247976 (74.50 GiB 80.00 GB) Used Dev Size : 156247976 (74.50 GiB 80.00 GB) Super Offset : 160086512 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 01524a75:c309869c:6da972c9:084115c6 Internal Bitmap : 2 sectors from superblock Flags : write-mostly Update Time : Tue Mar 24 11:41:41 2009 Checksum : 643e99c0 - correct Events : 111338 Array Slot : 2 (failed, failed, empty, 1) Array State : _u 2 failed frank:~ # As you can see, the "Name" attribute is "turnip:11". The hostname is "frank". Why did frank bring up the device? The only thing in frank's /etc/mdadm.conf is "HOMEHOST frank" which I didn't think was necessary anyway. -- Jon -- 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