Here are two patches for md that I believe are suitable for 2.6.4. 1/ change yield() to schedule_timeout(2) as promised a while back. 2/ Support assembling partitionable raid at boot-time so that it is possible to boot from a partition of a raid array without needing an initramfs. 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