Thanks, Neil. Actually, I think I have one more question... (Well, one question with many faces.) Is the stripe cache write-back, or write-through? If the latter, when does it get flushed to disk, exactly? - Pat -- 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