On Sunday September 21, dick.streefland@xs4all.nl wrote: > Every time I stop a RAID1 device with raidstop, and start it again > with raidstart, it resyncs. Is this normal, or am I doing something > wrong? Here is an example with a RAID1 device on two loopback devices: I cannot reproduce this. Does it happen with real devices, or only loopback devices? Can you try with mdadm and see if that makes a difference? After raidstop, and before raidstart, can you mdadm -E /dev/loop1 mdadm -E /dev/loop2 and show me the results? Thanks, 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