Also if i do something like: # grow bad blocks as ma*tor does :) mdadm --grow -l faulty -p rp454 /dev/md2 mdadm --grow -l faulty -p rp738 /dev/md3 # add a spare mdadm -a /dev/md5 /dev/ram5 mdadm -f /dev/md5 /dev/md2 && mdadm -f /dev/md5 /dev/md2 After the initial reconstruction i get this: mdadm: set /dev/md2 faulty in /dev/md5 Segmentation fault And then the computer enters in some kind of loop that makes it almost completely unresponsive -- All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain - 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