Hello Martin :) I gave 3.3 release a try and I have a first issue: basically starting mdmon (3.3) with --takeover twice make mdmon failing on the second run. Please find details below: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md126 : active raid1 sdb[1] sda[0] 2064384 blocks super external:/md127/0 [2/2] [UU] md127 : inactive sdb[1](S) sda[0](S) 65536 blocks super external:ddf # ps aux | grep dmon root 311 0.4 1.0 80580 10944 ? SLsl 17:46 0:00 @sbin/mdmon --takeover md127 # ./mdmon --takeover --all # ps aux | grep dmon root 3182 1.3 1.0 15156 11056 ? SLsl 17:50 0:00 ./mdmon --takeover md127 # ./mdmon --takeover --all ... monitor: wake ( ) monitor: wake ( ) monitor: wake ( ) monitor: wake ( ) monitor: wake ( ) monitor: wake ( 12:array_state ) read_and_act(0): 1378223477.512347 state:clean prev:clean action:idle prev: idle start:18446744073709551615 ddf mark 0/Linux-MDdeadbeef00000000?Ob79e0c8b1n (5) clean 18446744073709551615 manage_new: inst: 0 action: 11 state: 12 mdmon: ddf_open_new: subarray 0 doesn't exist mdmon: failed to monitor external:/md127/0 free_aa: sys_name: md126 read_and_act(0): state:clean action:idle next( ) manage_new: inst: 0 action: 20 state: 21 ddf_open_new: new subarray 0, GUID: Linux-MDdeadbeef00000000?Ob79e0c8b1n free_aa: sys_name: md126 caught sigterm, all clean... exiting monitor: wake ( ) no arrays to monitor... exiting # ps aux | grep dmon # Thanks -- Francis -- 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