hiya, has anyone come across the problem of md devices getting 'stuck'? currently, if i try to mount/umount md2, or run either raidstop or mdadm --stop, the commands just hang and /proc/mdstat gives no indication of anything going on. (the only way to kill the command seems to be to SIGKILL its parent process...) any ideas? dope:~ # mount /dev/md1 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) dope:~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md2 : active raid5 sdb6[6] sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb4[1] sda5[0] 44220800 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] md1 : active raid5 sdd2[2] sdc2[1] sdb5[0] 17688448 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] md0 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 2147264 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> dope:~ # ps -flw F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD 004 S root 4414 4413 0 72 0 - 506 norita 15:33 pts/4 00:00:00 -bash 000 D root 4438 4414 0 72 0 - 220 ptrace 15:34 pts/4 00:00:00 mdadm --stop /dev/md2 many thanks, /m - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html