On Wednesday January 19, mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > If the array is stopped, and then the disks tampered with, there is no > way md is noticing it. It's possible, however, that md will notice if > a disk is accessed directly while the array is active. > While theoretically possible, md doesn't notice this. The closest it comes is in 2.6 where a component drive cannot be mounted while it is active in an md array (EBUSY). NeilBrown - 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