Hey Neil, On 2018-12-10 02:41, NeilBrown wrote: > No, you don't want to do that. Reading from the superblock is what > "mdadm --examine" is for. "mdadm --detail" reports what the kernel > thinks. > > What mdadm should do in this case is simple not report the level at all, > just like it doesn't report "Raid Devices" at all. I'm still curious though what the kernel *should* think. My problem is that beyond mdadm --detail reporting raid0, the disk is actually not started as degraded on boot. Should it be started as degraded? Thanks, Niklas