i cant figure out what is wrong with the following command. when i remove the "parity=right-asymmetric" command option it does not fail. but i need to be able to create the raid device with different parity algorithms. it also fails on --level=5 and using the short forms of the flags. mdadm --create /dev/md2 --chunk=64 --level=6 --raid-devices=4 --parity=right-asymmetric --spare-devices=2 /dev/vg0/turnerlv1 /dev/vg0/turnerlv2 /dev/vg0/turnerlv3 /dev/vg0/turnerlv4 /dev/vg0/turnerlv5 /dev/vg0/turnerlv6 mdadm: layout may only be sent once. Second value was right-asymmetric rich:/tmp # mdadm --version mdadm - v1.5.0 - 22 Jan 2004 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html