Might it not be a good idea to DD the raw contents of each disk to a tape drive, just incase you fubar the array? It would be time consuming, but at least you could restore your data in the event that it gets corrupted. John. - 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