On Wednesday January 2, jnelson-linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > This isn't a high priority issue or anything, but I'm curious: > > I --stop(ped) an array but /sys/block/md2 remained largely populated. > Is that intentional? It is expected. Because of the way that md devices are created (just open the device-special file), it is very hard to make them disappear in a race-free manner. I tried once and failed. It is probably getting close to trying again, but as you say: it isn't a high priority issue. NeilBrown - 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