Hi, I have two md arrays, as shown below. When I booted my machine, /dev/md1 had state "active." Now it has state "clean." Can someone explain: * What's the distinction? * Why did the state of /dev/md1 change? * Where is this information documented? Thanks very much! ----- /dev/md0: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Fri Feb 13 17:02:30 2009 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 48064 (46.95 MiB 49.22 MB) Used Dev Size : 48064 (46.95 MiB 49.22 MB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Feb 19 15:04:48 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : e7a1a660:7c706227:b85fa97f:bc5a2294 Events : 0.300 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 65 0 active sync /dev/sde1 1 8 81 1 active sync /dev/sdf1 2 8 97 2 active sync /dev/sdg1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Fri Feb 13 17:03:39 2009 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 29301888 (27.94 GiB 30.01 GB) Used Dev Size : 4883648 (4.66 GiB 5.00 GB) Raid Devices : 8 Total Devices : 8 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Feb 19 15:17:02 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 8 Working Devices : 8 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 928d036a:68316b72:4211c500:2ffb6c4f Events : 0.4788 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 70 0 active sync /dev/sde6 1 8 86 1 active sync /dev/sdf6 2 8 102 2 active sync /dev/sdg6 3 8 48 3 active sync /dev/sdd 4 8 6 4 active sync /dev/sda6 5 8 22 5 active sync /dev/sdb6 6 8 38 6 active sync /dev/sdc6 7 8 112 7 active sync /dev/sdh -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com -- 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