Hello again, the issue is btw. easily reproducible: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo1 bs=1k count=100k 102400+0 records in 102400+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0,18648 s, 562 MB/s # losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/foo1 # mdadm --create -e 1.1 -l raid1 -n 2 -a md /dev/md8 /dev/loop0 missing mdadm: array /dev/md8 started. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo2 bs=1k count=100k 102400+0 records in 102400+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0,196626 s, 533 MB/s # losetup /dev/loop1 /tmp/foo2 # mdadm --add /dev/md8 /dev/loop1 mdadm: added /dev/loop1 # grep -A1 ^md8 /proc/mdstat md8 : active raid1 loop1[2] loop0[0] 102392 blocks super 1.1 [2/2] [UU] # mdadm -E /dev/loop0 | tail -2 Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) You have new mail in /var/mail/root # mdadm -E /dev/loop1 | tail -2 Device Role : spare Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) # regards Mario -- <jv> Oh well, config <jv> one actually wonders what force in the universe is holding it <jv> and makes it working <Beeth> chances and accidents :) -- 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