Hi all! For the record: Am 01.11.2012 um 22:03 schrieb Sebastian Hegler: > * Did mdadm (or the kernel md driver) write to the end area of the disk? Apparently no. > * Is it possible to make mdadm give me back the 128kiB at the end of each device? Yes: diff --git a/super1.c b/super1.c index 5bb1f01..4824aa3 100644 --- a/super1.c +++ b/super1.c @@ -1723,8 +1723,8 @@ static __u64 _avail_size1(struct supertype *st, __u64 devs /* Allow space for bad block log */ if (super && super->bblog_size) devsize -= __le16_to_cpu(super->bblog_size); - else - devsize -= 8; if (st->minor_version < 0) Yours, Sebastian -- 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