Hello, list, Is there a way to force the raid to skip this type of resync? Every 2s: cat /proc/mdstat Tue Dec 6 01:28:55 2005 Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] [raid10] [f aulty] md0 : active raid5 sdb1[4] sda1[10] hds1[5] hdq1[2] hdo1[3] hdm1[8] hdk1[6] hdi1 [7] hde1[9] hdc1[1] hda1[0] 1953583360 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [11/11] [UUUUUUUUUUU] [=>...................] resync = 6.0% (11758724/195358336) finish=1216.8 min speed=2512K/sec unused devices: <none> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: considering sdb1 ... md: adding sdb1 ... md: adding sda1 ... md: adding hds1 ... md: adding hdq1 ... md: adding hdo1 ... md: adding hdm1 ... md: adding hdk1 ... md: adding hdi1 ... md: adding hde1 ... md: adding hdc1 ... md: adding hda1 ... md: created md0 md: bind<hda1> md: bind<hdc1> md: bind<hde1> md: bind<hdi1> md: bind<hdk1> md: bind<hdm1> md: bind<hdo1> md: bind<hdq1> md: bind<hds1> md: bind<sda1> md: bind<sdb1> md: running: <sdb1><sda1><hds1><hdq1><hdo1><hdm1><hdk1><hdi1><hde1><hdc1><hda1> md: md0: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction Thanks, Janos - 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