On 09/23/2013 11:36 AM, Benjamin ESTRABAUD wrote: > Are you referring to the particular mention"Any device with "n" or > higher are spare disks. 0,1,..,n-1 are for the working array." in the > Mdstat wiki page? I was really thinking of the sentence before that, which states: The raid role numbers [#] following each device indicate its role, or function, within the raid set. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno@xxxxxxxxx Sometimes there's nothing left to do but crash and burn...or die trying. ======================================================================== -- 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