I'm glad my RAID1 worked as expected... just hoping I don't encounter any read timeouts on the non-TLER drive before my rebuild finishes: # mdadm --manage --add -v /dev/md2 /dev/sdb2 mdadm: added /dev/sdb2 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md2 : active raid1 sdb2[3] sda2[2] 976510840 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U] [>....................] recovery = 1.9% (19032256/976510840) finish=350.1min speed=45575K/sec unused devices: <none> # iostat -k 1 -x /dev/sd[ab] avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 1.63 0.00 20.65 0.00 0.00 77.72 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.00 0.00 1584.00 0.00 101376.00 0.00 128.00 2.84 1.80 0.39 61.60 sdb 0.00 3.00 0.00 1584.00 0.00 101568.00 128.24 27.72 17.70 0.63 99.60 -- 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