On 01/27/2016 07:19 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28 2016, Sarah Newman wrote: > >> Kernel: CentOS 6 Xen4CentOS 3.18.21-17 >> mdadm: CentOS 6 v3.3.2 >> >> With the above behavior, I consider the bad blocks list to be actively harmful. If it's expected behavior in the current version, please consider >> disabling the bad blocks list by default. > > You can do this yourself by putting > > CREATE bbl=no > > in /etc/mdadm.conf. That doesn't help others though. FYI, I tried adding that line and if it is present when trying to add to an array that currently has a bad blocks list, I get the error message md: sdi1 does not have a valid v1.0 superblock, not importing! Is this expected? Thanks, Sarah -- 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