On Tuesday March 22, Mario.Holbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > in the beginning I had just one simple question :) ... > Is there any way to start RAIDs in readonly mode while autodetection > on system boot? No. The read-only mode has not been well thought out in md, and I have not yet put any effort into fixing it. I might one day, but it is not a high priority. The only way you will find answers to your "why does it fail like this" questions is to hunt through the source code. 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