On 08:37, Neil Brown wrote: > Your '/dev' is a symlink, and mdadm doesn't seem to like that. > > Can you change the 'nftw' call in 'map_dev' in 'util.c' to > > nftw("/dev/.", add_dev, 10, FTW_PHYS); > > and see if that helps? Jup, that does the trick: # ./mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/hdd1 mdadm: re-added /dev/hdd1 > It isn't really the right fix, but it is a quick-and-dirty that might > work. Is it considered an invalid configuration to have /dev being a symlink (to /udev as in my case)? Thanks Andre -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe - 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