This won't help me, but you should report kernel and mdadm version, and include the mdadm -E and -D output for the array and one of the drives. Someone who knows more about the details might know of some obscure bug that explains this. More likely it's normal behavior and I'm just not understanding why the two sets of values are off. -- 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