On 05/09/2013 07:14 AM, NeilBrown wrote:

Try:
    ..... name="'newname':-"

That should work.  Quotes are special.

Yes, this works fine.

I should probably update the mdadm.conf manpage to mention that.

NeilBrown

I think, that an output from `mdadm  --detail --scan` and `mkconf` 
should also be updated to generate correct name parameters for this case.