Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>  wrote:
 > What I've done is to make /etc/rc.d/raidframe run after fsck (no problems as
 > I only use autoconfig). This way the rebuild (run in background anyway)
 > doesn't compete with fsck for disk access. This speeds things up a lot.

That's a good idea.  I also discovered that if you "reboot" instead of
"shutdown -r now", then your parity will _always_ be DIRTY.  for me, 
"reboot" is such a habit.