I ran into a weird problem recently. I tried using --stop on an array that was in the process of rebuilding (immediately following creation). mdadm never returned. After the array was complete, mdadm still had not returned. An strace of the mdadm process showed, unfortunately, nothing, indicating to me that it was stuck in the kernel somewhere. I have no other information at this time, except that it was with the Rescue option from the openSUSE 11.0 x86-64 DVD iso (and thus the stock kernel, mdadm version, etc...) -- Jon -- 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