Hello! I have raid1 array with bitmap (md3), one disk has died, been replaced and array resynced: Aug 25 15:38:03 gamma2 kernel: [ 5.986791] md: md3 stopped. Aug 25 15:38:03 gamma2 kernel: [ 6.043306] raid1: raid set md3 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors Aug 25 15:38:03 gamma2 kernel: [ 6.044378] md3: bitmap initialized from disk: read 2/2 pages, set 357 bits Aug 25 15:38:03 gamma2 kernel: [ 6.044442] created bitmap (22 pages) for device md3 Aug 25 15:38:03 gamma2 kernel: [ 6.070492] md3: detected capacity change from 0 to 1478197903360 Aug 25 15:38:03 gamma2 kernel: [ 6.070862] md3: unknown partition table Aug 26 19:33:33 gamma2 kernel: [100325.814179] md: md3: recovery done. Now, /proc/mdstats still shows "dirty" bitmap, 16 of 22 pages: root@gamma2:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md3 : active raid1 sdc3[1] sdb3[0] 1443552640 blocks [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 16/22 pages [64KB], 32768KB chunk root@gamma2:~# mdadm -D /dev/md3 /dev/md3: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Wed Oct 13 03:13:52 2010 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 1443552640 (1376.68 GiB 1478.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 1443552640 (1376.68 GiB 1478.20 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Sat Aug 27 13:53:57 2011 State : active Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : f5a9c1da:83dd4c40:d363f6aa:3cbcebe5 Events : 0.1381014 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 19 0 active sync /dev/sdb3 1 8 35 1 active sync /dev/sdc3 That is strange as I can understand. distrib & mdadm info: Debian Lenny with openvz kernel from lenny-backports. root@gamma2:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-bpo.5-openvz-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-35~bpo50+1) (norbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) ) #1 SMP Wed Jul 20 11:23:01 UTC 2011 root@gamma2:~# mdadm --version mdadm - v2.6.7.2 - 14th November 2008 -- Best regards, [COOLCOLD-RIPN] -- 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