On Tue, January 6, 2009 1:46 pm, Mike Myers wrote: > BTW, don't I need to use the --assume-clean option in the create operation > to have this work right? No. When you create a degraded raid5, it is always assumed to be clean, because it doesn't make any sense for it to be dirty. However it wouldn't hurt to use --assume-clean, but it won't make any difference. 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