Given I have a pair of 1TB drives Raid1 I'd prefer to reduce any recovery sync time. Would an internal bitmap help dramatically, and are there any other benefits. Steve -------------------------------------------- Steven Ellis - Technical Director OpenMedia Limited - The Home of myPVR email - steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz -- 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