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Setting up RAID with redundant disks

RAID-1 and above allow to define spare disks in /etc/raidtab.
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 1
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sda1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sdc1
spare-disk 0
Spare disks are not used until one of the RAID disks fails, then a spare is brought into the array.
When we start RAID with mirroring, something interesting happens...