On Monday July 8, chabotc@xs4all.nl wrote: > > is there any way to create the array, and just mark these blocks bad in the > file system, as you would with a 'normal' drive? > No. (if you use raid5, you care about your data, and if you care about your data, you don't use a drive with bad blocks. Atleast, that is my logic.) NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html