On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:44:50AM -0500, Jesse Wheeler wrote: > Interesting. I just got done reading that section in the manpage; if > anything, I didn't know mdadm would process an array in that fashion. > However, I don't see this behavior listed in my /proc/mdstat output. > If it's there, I'm missing it: auto-read-only goes away with the first write request. If you have a file system on the RAID device, just mounting it R/W causes the superblock to be updated and that in turn ends auto-read-only mode. Unless you have an unused RAID device, it's not that easy to catch the moment when the array is still in auto-read-only mode. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- 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