I re-tested the exact same scenarios today in what I believe was the same way, and now it's working as expected. I'm not sure why it didn't work before. Sorry for the noise! -- Richard -- 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