Following 9 patches for md are suitable for 2.5.26. Yes, I really should have submitted them to -mm earlier, but I've been on leave, sorry. First patch is a bug fix that should go in 2.6.25.stable. It has been copied to stable@xxxxxxxxxxx Others are mostly related to "external" metadata support. i.e. a userspace program does all the management of metadata, and needs to communicate with the kernel to do its job properly. NeilBrown [PATCH 001 of 9] md: Fix use after free when removing rdev via sysfs [PATCH 002 of 9] md: Skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata. [PATCH 003 of 9] md: Reinitialise more mddev fields in do_md_stop. [PATCH 004 of 9] md: Fix 'safemode' handling for external metadata. [PATCH 005 of 9] md: Fix up switching md arrays between read-only and read-write [PATCH 006 of 9] md: Remove a stray command from a copy and paste error in resync_start_store [PATCH 007 of 9] md: prevent duplicates in bind_rdev_to_array [PATCH 008 of 9] md: md: raid5 rate limit error printk [PATCH 009 of 9] md: md: support blocking writes to an array on device failure -- 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