I tried to create a raid thusly: mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=10 --layout=f2 --metadata=ddf --raid-devices=2 --assume-clean /dev/sdc1 missing and while I got a non-zero exit code (1), I did not get an error message or any other indication of failure. The misfeature is that I expected some sort of message. -- Jon -- 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