Hi, First of all: thanks for the speedy reply! Both patches applied cleanly to 2.6.13.2 and work as expected. No more oops :) I hope these patches make it into the next stable release of the 2.6.13 branch. On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:30 +0200, Neil Brown wrote: <snip> > > Filesystem on /mnt stays usable during all this (slight hickup when a > > disk is removed, but keeps going) > > Then reinserted sdc. To get it resynced I did: > > # mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sdc2 > > # mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/sdc2 > > And it happily resynced and made sdc2 healthy again. > > now > sda2 sdc2 missing sdd2 > > note that sdc2 took the first empty slot. That's where I went wrong. I thought it would take it's "old" place again at the second empty slot. <snip the rest> Thanks again! Regards, Guus Houtzager -- Luna.nl B.V. Puntegaalstraat 109 * 3024 EB Rotterdam T 010 7502000 * F 010 7502002 * www.luna.nl - 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