+understand two sorts of names for array devices.
+
+The first is the so-called 'standard' format name, which matches the
+names used by the kernel and which appear in
+.IR /proc/mdstat .
+
+The second sort can be freely chosen, but must reside in
+.IR /dev/md/ .
+When giving a device name to
+.I mdadm
+to create or assemble an array, either full path name such as
+.I /dev/md0
+or
+.I /dev/md/home
+can be given, or just the suffix of the second sort of name, such as
+.I home
+can be given.
+
+When
+.I mdadm
+chooses device names during auto-assembly or incremental assembly, it
+will sometimes add a small sequence number to the end of the name to
+avoid conflicted between multiple arrays that have the same name. If
+.I mdadm
+can reasonably determine that the array really is meant for this host,
+either by a hostname in the metadata, or by the presence of the array
+in /etc/mdadm.conf, then it will leave off the suffix if possible.
+Also if the homehost is specified as
+.B <ignore>
+.I mdadm
+will only use a suffix if a different array of the same name already
+exists or is listed in the config file.