>i recovered my raid by using dd_rescue the last failed disk to a spare >disk (with 4 read errors) >(and doing a mdadm -A -force) >(so I should have a corrupted file somewhere?) Or a corrupted filesystem, which e2fsck will find & fix. Did you write down the bad sectors? If so, you can use debugfs to find out where they are on the filesystem. Computing the filesystem block number from the device sector number will be an exercise... - 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