On Sunday October 19, spam@streefland.xs4all.nl wrote: > When I mark one of the devices in a RAID1 array faulty, remove it, and > re-add it, recovery starts, but stops too early, leaving the array in > degraded mode. I'me seeing this in the latest 2.6.0 kernels, including > 2.6.0-test8. The 2.4.22 kernel works OK, although the array is marked > "dirty" (?). Below is a script to reproduce the problem, followed by > the output of the script. I'm using mdadm-1.3.0. Thanks for providing a script... It works fine for me (2.6.0-test8). I don't suppose there is anything in the kernel logs about write errors on loop2 ??? Does it fail consistently for you, or only occasionally? 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