On 09/23/2013 12:39 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 09/23/2013 11:36 AM, Benjamin ESTRABAUD wrote: >> Are you referring to the particular mention"Any device with "n" or >> higher are spare disks. 0,1,..,n-1 are for the working array." in the >> Mdstat wiki page? > > I was really thinking of the sentence before that, which states: > > The raid role numbers [#] following each device indicate its role, or > function, within the raid set. The wiki is wrong. The number in brackets is the device's index into the *table* of roles in the superblock. In a new array, table entries are allocated sequentially, which makes it *look* like the role numbers. Phil -- 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
