On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:18 +1000, "NeilBrown" <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > ---- cut lots of detail----- > It is very good to include lots of detail, but more effective you include > it > after you have asked the question, otherwise one gets bored long before > one > reaches the actual question.... Ok. I got beaten up for top posting once, and was told to 'keep things in order'. Next time, though -- question first, in BOTH the title and the body. > > I get different results for each one. > > It is just the different names that has you bothered - correct? No, not just the names. I guess I don't know the PURPOSE of the names, if the names we give things aren't necessarily the ones that get used. But more a problem are the different UUID's:. cat /dev/.mdadm/map --------------------------------------------------------------- md126 0.90 19f2b21c:e54f9e1a:be5ad16e:9754ab5e /dev/md/0_0 md127 1.2 79fb7ad4:289bfae5:86c535ff:202960f2 /dev/md127 --------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm --detail --scan ARRAY /dev/md127 metadata=1.2 name=jeffadm:jeffadm1 UUID=d84afb64:e6fa2b64:ff21c975:f9765431 ARRAY /dev/md/0_0 metadata=0.90 UUID=19f2b21c:e54f9e1a:be5ad16e:9754ab5e Notice that the UUIDs for /dev/md/0_0 match, but for /dev/md127 the don't. jeff -- 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