It appears that a couple of bugs slipped in to md for 2.6.23. These two patches fix them and are appropriate for 2.6.23.y as well as 2.6.24-rcX Thanks, NeilBrown [PATCH 001 of 2] md: Fix an unsigned compare to allow creation of bitmaps with v1.0 metadata. [PATCH 002 of 2] md: raid5: fix clearing of biofill operations - 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