On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 06:53:30PM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote: > Other than showing off that you're gung-ho with command-lines It's a simple command. It's not an undocumented feature, either. With RAID 0 it's actually the only way that works. I'm not sure what your beef is here. > can you guarantee it wouldn't FIRST reshape the > array onto a number of missing devices, massively degrading or eliminating > redundancy, and only then would start with the "add" operation (to "fill in > the blanks" and start a rebuild)? Thankfully I'm not an mdadm developer or I would be a bit miffed at this point since you obviously believe mdadm was written by a goldfish. I thought perhaps you'd have to add something of substance, like how I forgot to add mdadm --remove in my previous mail. Or why oh why does mdadm --grow --add add devices in reverse order. Not that it matters other than a cosmetic problem. 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