On Thursday November 25, david@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Sigh, > > I'm having what might be xfs/nfsd conflicts and thought I'd reboot into > an old 2.6.6 kernel which used to be stable. > > Of course it spotted the fd partitions and tried to start the array. > It failed (the old kernel didn't have a driver for the new controller so > some devices were missing) > > However when I came back to 2.6.9 I get the rather conflicting status > shown below. You might need to explain to me what is "conflicting". It looks to be like the array as 6 working devices and one spare, and that due to an unclean shutdown it is resyncing the 6 working devices. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html