On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:49:52 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > If I use --assume-clean and then run a check, will this perform the > initialization when using a RAID-1/RAID-6? > No - check doesn't write anything. But if you use --assume-clean then run a 'repair', it will perform the initialisation that --assume-clean deliberately avoided. 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