Alright, apparently that time even count was in sync. That being said, I've seen internal bitmap at work, and it was blazing fast. I've also been using the array for a couple of days now, and as Adam predicted the performance impact is not even noticeable in my particular configuration. Which makes me really happy, of course. Ivan-- 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