does the *physical* order/location of drives in a mdadm-managed RAID-10 array matter?

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Published on 2012-03-19T21:34:57Z Indexed on 2012/03/19 23:31 UTC
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i've setup a 4-drive RAID-10 array using mdadm-managed, software-raid on an x86_64 box.

it'd up & running and works as expected,

cat /proc/mdstat
    md127 : active raid10 sdc2[2] sdd2[3] sda2[0] sdb2[1]
          1951397888 blocks super 1.2 512K chunks 2 far-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
          bitmap: 9/466 pages [36KB], 2048KB chunk

atm the four SATA drives are physically plugged into the motherboard's 1st four SATA ports.

i'd like to gather the necessary/complete info for catastrophic recovery. reading starting here, http://neil.brown.name/blog, and the mailing list, i'm not yet completely confident i have it right.

i understand 'drive order matters'. is that logical, &/or physical order that matters?

if i unplugged the four drives in this array, and plugged them each back into different ports on the motherboard or a pci card, as long as i've changed nothing in software config, will the array correctly auto-re-assemble?

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