Neil. I do not know what is policy for mdadm patches. I would thankful for some instructions. The bellow is the patch I applied to support raid0 chunk sizes 4K*n. --- --- mdadm.c (revision 16152) +++ mdadm.c (working copy) @@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ exit(2); } chunk = strtol(optarg, &c, 10); - if (!optarg[0] || *c || chunk<4 || (chunk%4)) { + if (!optarg[0] || *c || chunk<4 || (((chunk-1)&chunk) && level !=0) + || (((chunk%4) && level ==0) )) { fprintf(stderr, Name ": invalid chunk/rounding value: %s\n", optarg); exit(2); -- 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