Hi, I rebooted my server today to find out that one of the arrays is being re-synced (see output below) . 1. What does the (S) to the right of hdh1[5](S) mean? 2. How do I know, from this output, which disk is the one holding the most current data and from which all the other drives are syncing from? Or are they all containing the data and this sync process is something else? Maybe I'm just not understanding what is being done exactly? Thanks in advance for the help. Shai --- md0 : active raid5 hdd1[1] hdc1[0] hdh1[5](S) hdg1[4] hdf1[3] hde1[2] 781433344 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] [=>...................] resync = 5.1% (9965184/195358336) finish=180.5min speed=17110K/sec ------------------- # mdadm -Q --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.02 Creation Time : Mon Mar 20 20:40:24 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 781433344 (745.23 GiB 800.19 GB) Device Size : 195358336 (186.31 GiB 200.05 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 6 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Jul 18 10:28:39 2006 State : active, resyncing Active Devices : 5 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Rebuild Status : 8% complete UUID : 4bc2c7f7:b7ec1184:9c2c382d:2aaf7a98 Events : 0.386738 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 22 1 0 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hdc1 1 22 65 1 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hdd1 2 33 1 2 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hde1 3 33 65 3 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hdf1 4 34 1 4 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hdg1 5 34 65 - spare /dev/.static/dev/hdh1 - 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