On 12 Jan 2007, Ernst Herzberg told this: > Then every about 60 sec 4 times > > event=SpareActive > mddev=/dev/md3 I see exactly this on both my RAID-5 arrays, neither of which have any spare device --- nor have any active devices transitioned to spare (which is what that event is actually supposed to mean). mdadm-2.6 bug, I fear. I haven't tracked it down yet but will look shortly: I can't afford to not run mdadm --monitor... odd, that code hasn't changed during 2.6 development. -- `He accused the FSF of being "something of a hypocrit", which shows that he neither understands hypocrisy nor can spell.' --- jimmybgood - 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