Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday July 8, molle.bestefich@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > So a clean RAID1 with a disk missing should start without --run, just > > like a clean RAID5 with a disk missing? > Not that with /dev/loop3 no funcitoning, > mdadm --assemble --scan > will still work. Super! That was exactly the point of the test. You're correct, when I try again with a DEVICE line and --assemble --scan, everything works perfectly. (Not sure why Mitchell Laks saw something else happen.) Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer questions, the information is much appreciated! - 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