I've got two stripes that were set up as mdadm -C /dev/md1 --level=stripe -n 5 \ /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 mdadm -C /dev/md2 --level=stripe -n 5 \ /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1 and a mirror that was set up by doing mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level=mirror -n 2 /dev/md1 /dev/md2 My /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf reads DEVICE /dev/sd[abcdefghij]1 /dev/md[12] ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid0 num-devices=5 UUID=75892ebc:b52333a4:b77cbdca:9d50c65d devices=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1 ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid0 num-devices=5 UUID=c7547e18:48952f89:49893143:e477c407 devices=/dev/sdf1,/dev/sdg1,/dev/sdh1,/dev/sdi1,/dev/sdj1 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=26e3111e:90a3407d:341ed800:1f431f24 devices=/dev/md1,/dev/md2 mdadm -A -s starts md1, then md2, but doesn't start md0. I have to run it a second time to get md0 to start. The first run prints out: mdadm: /dev/md1 has been started with 5 drives. mdadm: /dev/md2 has been started with 5 drives. mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0 Is that a bug or a feature? mdadm is v1.4.0. -Chris - 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