On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:56 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > 0.90 has data at the start and metadata at the end on a 64k aligned boundary. > So if the partition is 4K aligned, everything else will be too. OK, that's clear. Thanks very much for your help. It's a rare project that the main developer helps users so directly. I appreciate it. I'm rebuilding the array using aligned partitions and 1.2 metadata anyway. It'll be easier to maintain, especially if I later have to replace a drive. Regards, Tyler -- "It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so." -- Ernestine Rose -- 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