It possibly for this to still have flags in it and a previous instance has been stopped, and that confused the new array using the same mddev. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c --- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ 2005-08-26 17:01:48.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2005-08-26 17:04:20.000000000 +1000 @@ -1701,6 +1701,7 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) mddev->pers = pers[pnum]; spin_unlock(&pers_lock); + mddev->recovery = 0; mddev->resync_max_sectors = mddev->size << 1; /* may be over-ridden by personality */ /* before we start the array running, initialise the bitmap */ - 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