Question about a mismatch between documentation and how mdadm currently works.

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm fooling around with RAID on Linux for the first time.  Lots to learn.
I have one issue that
keeps coming up with creating RAID arrays with mdadm.

The documentation I have all says to create arrays with something like
mdadm --create /dev/md0 (and some more stuff)
and what follows really does indicate they expect the array to appear as
/dev/md0.  What
happens when I try it is that the array is created as /dev/md127.  If I
create two arrays, the
next one is /dev/md126.

Likewise, if I assemble a RAID array, they go to the high numbers no matter
what my command-line says.

What's up with this?  Is it historical?  Is something just ignoring that
part of the command line?  Is that part even required?

++ kevindf


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