Any chance you can look at this Superblock v1 bug Neil?
From: Tyler <hidden> Date: 2005-07-23 22:28:15
[Fwd: bug report: mdadm-devel-2 , superblock version 1]
I believe I've now tryed this with a patched mdadm devel-2, and a
2.6.13-rc3-mm1 kernel (which as a few recent md patches), with the same
results.
Thanks,
Tyler.