[This is a bit of a repost, because I'm slightly desperate :)] I'm still having problems with some md arrays not shutting down cleanly on halt / reboot. The problem seems to affect only arrays that are started via an initrd, even if they do not have the root filesystem on them. That's all arrays if they're either managed by EVMS or the ramdisk-creator is initramfs-tools. For yaird-generated initrds only the array with root on it is affected. At the moment I'm working around the problem by inserting a sync and 15 second sleep before reboot / halt. That way the array _sometimes_ is switched into a read-only mode. If only there were an exitrd imge to comlement the initrds ... Any ideas welcome Thank you, Christian - 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