Neil hello. you say raid5.h: ... * Whenever the delayed queue is empty and the device is not plugged, we * move any strips from delayed to handle and clear the DELAYED flag and set PREREAD_ACTIVE. ... i do not understand how can one move from delayed if delayed is empty . thank you -- Raz - 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