note this strange problem which doesn't seem related. > cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid10] md127 : inactive sdb3[8](S) sdf3[13](S) sda3[11](S) sdc3[9](S) sdd3[12](S) sdg3[10](S) sde3[15](S) 3160477768 blocks super 1.0 md0 : active raid10 sdd2[12] sdh2[0] sdb2[8] sdf2[13] sdg2[10] sda2[11] sde2[14] sdc2[9] 143358976 blocks super 1.0 256K chunks 2 near-copies [8/8] [UUUUUUUU] unused devices: <none> > mdadm -S /dev/md127 mdadm: error opening /dev/md127: No such file or directory -- 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