The time and speed display for resync is wrong, the recovery numbers are fine. The resync is actually running at a few MB/sec. md1 : active raid6 sdn1[8](S) sde1[9] sdq1[0] sdu1[6] sdo1[5] sdaa3[4] sdab1[2] sds1[1] 1757815296 blocks level 6, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/6] [UUU_UUU_] [>....................] recovery = 3.6% (10616704/292969216) finish=840.3min speed=5597K/sec md0 : active raid6 sdac2[0] sdz1[4] sdy1[2] sdx1[1] sdw1[3] sdv1[5] sdr2[6] 1875299328 blocks level 6, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/7] [UUUUUUU_] [======>..............] resync = 33.1% (103563392/312549888) finish=1.5min speed=2288625K/sec This is a amd64 x2 but running in single processor mode because of all the timer problems with dual cpus mdadm - v2.1 - 12 September 2005 - 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