Hi Neil, Some time ago you suggested that Incremental may migrate spares from spare-container when it is ready to start array as it is impossible to know array's domain before we have all members. Here are patches that do this. First two patches modify slightly existing functions to be able to use them in Incremental too. Third one does the work. Regards Anna 0001-Use-one-function-chosing-spares-from-container.patch 0002-move_spare-function-modified-and-moved-to-Manage.c.patch 0003-Incremental-move-suitable-spares-to-container-when-s.patch Incremental.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Manage.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Monitor.c | 102 +++++++++----------------------------------------------- mdadm.h | 7 +++- super-intel.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++----- 5 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-) -- 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