Matt wrote: > Does anyone have an idea what I have wrong here? This is my first > software RAID install. Built a number of Centos servers without RAID > and they have all worked fine. > wild guess, md is still striping. try... # mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Thu Dec 10 12:58:00 2009 Raid Level : raid10 Array Size : 286743936 (273.46 GiB 293.63 GB) Device Size : 143371968 (136.73 GiB 146.81 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Dec 21 16:48:16 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : near=2, far=1 Chunk Size : 64K UUID : efd5289d:577a741b:16302cca:5b33303f Events : 0.237213 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 8 81 3 active sync /dev/sdf1