Hi, after a power fail I was afraid so I was thinking about making a full gzipped image with dd from both members of my level1 array to be able to go back to the "original" (before the crash) state in case if *something* goes wrong during rebuild/lvm activation/fsck. The other machine I put the disk in unfortunately also had mdadm installed which automatically activated the degraded array (only one member of the array was connected) at boot time. Now, if i just put the disks back in the crashed machine, will the right thing happen while the kernel is resyncing the blocks between the devices? The internal bitmap was turned on, but the event counter on the mistakenly activated member of the array might have changed. I don't know how this -or other things I am not aware of- relates to the actual reassembly of my RAID1 array. I'm looking for an authoritative answer to understand the situation. Csordás Csaba -- 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