> Hope this clarifies. You don't need this script if your OS always > finds > your spares and adds them automatically to your arrays. Mine doesn't. Really, if md 'forgets' a spare on reboot, that's a bug and should be reported. This is how my raid looks Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] md0 : active raid6 sdg[5] sdh[6](S) sdc[7] sdb[0] sde[3] sdf[4] sdd[8] 7814051840 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] unused devices: <none> What distro/version is this? Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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