Many thanks to both of you, Phil and Neil! Everything works flawlessly now and I had no data loss whatsoever. > Long term, consider creating a new array with metadata type 1.x so you > can use a bitmap. If you ever have an event like this, where one or > more devices are disconnected then reconnected, it'll greatly shorten > the recovery time. But it's not possible to upgrade the metadata version of an existing array, is it? Fabian -- 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