Hi, I think I've hit a reproducible bug in the raid 10 driver, tried on two different machines with kernels 2.6.20 and 2.6.18. This is a script to simulate the problem: ====================== #!/bin/bash modprobe loop for ID in 1 2 3 ; do echo -n "Creating loopback device $ID... " dd if=/dev/zero of=dsk${ID}.img bs=512 count=995967 losetup /dev/loop${ID} dsk${ID}.img echo "done." done mdadm -C /dev/md2 -l 10 -n 3 -p o2 -c 2048 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3 echo "Raid device assembled, check /proc/mdstat's output when resync is finished" ====================== This is the output I get in /proc/mdstat after the resync settles: ====================== md2 : active raid10 loop3[2] loop2[3](F) loop1[0] 746496 blocks 2048K chunks 2 offset-copies [3/2] [U_U] ====================== - 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