I'll keep this short and to the point and I'm hoping for a quick simple high-level answer from the gurus. I don't need hand holding, so please take a quick look! I have a new RAID6 array. A component of that array is a RAID0 sub-array. mdadm creates and rebuilds this multilevel array just fine. Then I reboot. Boot log shows RAID6 detected first, _THEN_ RAID0. Thus RAID6 is degraded without its RAID0 component. The RAID0 array is fine/clean. It's just a boot order problem I'm sure. How do I set/force the order that arrays are started at boot time? When doing multi-level arrays, you would think either a) you can force it or b) it would be "smart" about it. FC3 kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 using mdadm no raidtab Thanks! PS #1: if this is a mailing list, please CC my email. PS #2: I did google searches for 2 hours and there is ZILCH on this topic - 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