On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:01:45PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > Presumably something when wrong during shutdown. However without more > details (--examine) I cannot guess. OK, thank you. I've also found https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/articles/r/a/i/RAID_Recovery_d376.html which shows the --examine option too. When building the array, would you suggest I also specify --bitmap=internal, so that there is less data to resync after an error? Regards, Brian. -- 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