On Tuesday February 10, mikepery@fscked.org wrote: > > I concur. The manpages really should clear up that raidhotadd (and mdadm > -a) only add spares. And they should further clarify that spares are > essentially useless and lie dormant.. The names of these > commands/options are very deceptive to the new user... Patches are more that welcome. It is very hard for someone how knows the system "inside-out" to see which areas aren't explained well. 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