On Mar 13, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Joel Young <jdy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/loop0 loop0 isn't defined in any of your raids. > mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/loop1 This causes md0 to be degraded. > mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > mdadm --detail /dev/md2 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md2 bs=1M > > Shouldn't /dev/md2 be failed at this point? No. Chris Murphy -- 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