Hi, thanks for the explanation about metadata. > mdasseble is specifically made for initrd, so why not use it here? I do not know, I just noticed that, on Fedora, the initrd with RAID has /etc/mdadm.conf and it calls "mdadm -As ...". Which I found annoying, since I do not know what will happen in case an array is changed (UUID change, /etc/mdadm.conf not more consistent). Anyway, if you say "mdassemble" is OK, no problem. Thanks, bye, -- piergiorgio -- 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