mdadm: Disk configuration by UUID

You first create the RAID5 device and then use the UUID of it in your mdadm.conf, not the UUID for a filesystem:

# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
        Version : 1.2
 ....
           Name : enterprise:0  (local to host enterprise)
           UUID : 7d2bf7e5:dc6edd5c:3ca12e46:8c9e5d4b
         Events : 48

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State

So I have a mdadm.conf of

ARRAY /dev/md/0 metadata=1.2 UUID=7d2bf7e5:dc6edd5c:3ca12e46:8c9e5d4b name=enterprise:0

Use the entries in /dev/disk/by-id to reference the parts of the RAID. For example:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9320423AS_5VH56VSB

First create your desired raid array with mdadm command. As soon as this is done you will have a UUID for the md. Then you can create a mdadm.conf with

mdadm --examine --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf

Verify later on with ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

mdadm: Disk configuration by UUID

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