> Yes, that looks right. Well, testing now (replacing sde)... md5 : active raid10 sdc2[4](R) sdd2[3] sda2[0] sde2[2] sdb2[1] 725591552 blocks 256K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU] [>....................] recovery = 0.6% (2505344/362795776) finish=107.4min speed=55909K/sec bitmap: 5/173 pages [20KB], 2048KB chunk One noteworthy thing is that the array didn't come up completely on boot... Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: adding sda2 ... Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sda2 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: adding sde2 ... Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: sde1 has different UUID to sda2 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: sdd3 has different UUID to sda2 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: adding sdd2 ... Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: sdd1 has different UUID to sda2 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: sdc3 has different UUID to sda2 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: adding sdb2 ... Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: sdb1 has different UUID to sda2 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: adding sdc2 ... Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: sdc1 has different UUID to sda2 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: created md5 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: bind<sdc2> Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: bind<sdb2> Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: export_rdev(sdd2) Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: bind<sde2> Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: bind<sda2> Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: running: <sda2><sde2><sdb2><sdc2> Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sdc2 from array! Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: unbind<sdc2> Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md: export_rdev(sdc2) Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md/raid10:md5: active with 3 out of 4 devices Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: created bitmap (173 pages) for device md5 Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md5: bitmap initialized from disk: read 11 pages, set 0 of 354293 bits Nov 22 06:14:54 science kernel: md5: detected capacity change from 0 to 743005749248 It came up with neither sdd2 nor sdc2 in the array, even though the rebuild of sdd2 (from --zero-superblock) had finished before. Adding sdd2 was a re-add and went smoothly, though. Oh, if you think you need my S-o-b to send that 3.6.x patch to stable@ (personally, I dont't; all the original work is yours and all I did was mechanical), feel free to add it. -- 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