On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 15:30:32 -0500,
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> At bootup, the new array gets automounted on /dev/md127 for some
> reason. Everything's fine, I see no issues except for the unexpected
> device minor number.
>
> Anyone care to enlighten me, how mdraid minor numbers get handed
I have existing mdraid arrays. They get mounted as /dev/md0 through /dev/md2.
After some sweat and tears, I reduces the size of one of them, and used the
free disk space to assemble a new array (all arrays we're talking here are
raid 1, with two disks). I formatted the new md device as ext3.