On Friday September 18, aristizb@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi Neil, > > That is exactly the message I get in the kernel logs. > > I tried ten times to assemble the array (waiting 2 seconds in between) > with no luck, but after 2-3 minutes it worked. > That is very strange. That error message implies that the file is open by some other program... maybe you have a file browser (Konqueror? nautilus?) open on /tmp and when the bitmap file changes it opens it to have a look inside to produce a thumbnail, and that stops md from being able to use it? That seems very unlikely though... Maybe try lsof /tmp/md2003bm to see if anything is using the file. NeilBrown -- 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