On 11/19/12 3:15 PM, George Spelvin wrote: >> There is no encryption to my knowledge (not an expert in mdadm). > > linux md doesn't do encryption. But there are other things, like > dm-crypt, that it can be combined with to do encryption. > > That doesn't look like a superblock, that looks like random bits, > as produced by encryption or good compression. (Could be jpeg, > mp3, or compressed video, it's hard to tell.) does blkid /dev/md0 and/or file -s /dev/md0 think it looks like anything other than data? -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html