I have never noticed this, my apologies for not being able to resolve
this independently.
I have this array that I am using for the primary bulk of my data and
today was the first day that I noticed this designator in the detailed
output:
storrgie@MINERVA:~$ sudo mdadm -D /dev/md2
/dev/md2:
Version : 00.90
Creation Time : Fri Apr 30 21:13:28 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Array Size : 11721071616 (11178.09 GiB 12002.38 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953511936 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Raid Devices : 8
Total Devices : 8
Preferred Minor : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Wed Jun 2 20:42:04 2010
State : clean
Active Devices : 8
Working Devices : 8
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Chunk Size : 512K
UUID : f340fbe8:51967d4b:6d37f269:4e81e338 (local to host MINERVA)
Events : 0.26
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 65 0 active sync /dev/sde1
1 8 81 1 active sync /dev/sdf1
2 8 97 2 active sync /dev/sdg1
3 8 113 3 active sync /dev/sdh1
4 8 129 4 active sync /dev/sdi1
5 8 145 5 active sync /dev/sdj1
6 8 161 6 active sync /dev/sdk1
7 8 177 7 active sync /dev/sdl1
What is the meaning of Preferred Minor : 2 ?
Thank you all.
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