On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 12:46:15AM +0200, Patrik Dahlström wrote: > mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda: Device or resource busy Well, normally you're not supposed to do this. :-) Easy to wreck your data if you do. > My overlay setup is keeping /dev/sd[abdce] busy. How do I setup the > overlay to keep it from occupying the disks? You could create the RAID first and the overlay afterwards. Or you can create loop devices on the busy devices and use those. Regards Andreas Klauer -- 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