# create a simple linear mdadm -CR $md0 -l linear -n3 $dev0 $dev1 $dev2 check linear testdev $md0 3 $mdsize2_l 1 mdadm -S $md0 # now with version-0.90 superblock mdadm -CR $md0 -e0.90 --level=linear -n4 $dev0 $dev1 $dev2 $dev3 check linear testdev $md0 4 $mdsize0 1 mdadm -S $md0 # now with version-1.0 superblock mdadm -CR $md0 -e1.0 --level=linear -n4 $dev0 $dev1 $dev2 $dev3 check linear testdev $md0 4 $mdsize1 1 mdadm -S $md0 # now with no superblock mdadm -B $md0 -l linear -n5 $dev0 $dev1 $dev2 $dev3 $dev4 check linear testdev $md0 5 $size 64 mdadm -S $md0