What determines mdraid minor device numbers
 

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.


I added "UUID=<uuid> /mountpoint" to /etc/fstab.

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 out, and
why the one I manually created comes up as a high number, even though the
next free minor device is, obviously, /dev/md3.



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What determines mdraid minor device numbers
 

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 15:30:32 -0500,
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com> 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
> out, and why the one I manually created comes up as a high number,
> even though the next free minor device is, obviously, /dev/md3.

Some of this is controlled by /etc/mdadm.conf. This file is used when
running dracut to build an initramfs.

For arrays that aren't listed in /etc/mdadm.conf, I think udev gets to
pick the names. They seem to start at 127 and go up.

There is also a minor number that is stored in the superblocks, but it
doesn't seem to force that number to be part of the device name.
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