Hello Neil, The following series implements takeover support for external metadata in mdadm. A few changes were made after Dan's last review: 1. Now mdadm checks the return value from update_super() and according to that it runs mdmon and flushes the update or it continue without mdmon. In other words external handler now decides if metadata update is needed after md switch the level (0->10 vs 0->5 scenarions). 2. imsm_dev reallocation was added to fit additional missing disks in case when second map is needed. Regards. Maciek --- Maciej Trela (2): Add takeover support for external meta Disk removal support for Raid10->Raid0 takeover Grow.c | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- managemon.c | 13 +++ mdadm.h | 1 mdstat.c | 24 ++++++ monitor.c | 2 - super-intel.c | 212 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 6 files changed, 384 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{����w��ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f