hello all, first message to this group. Ive recently created a 3 disk raid5 using mdadm. file copy to this array fails consistently after a few gigs. the array does not die completely, but rather it is marked readonly. I created the array on 3 disks of equal partition size with: sudo mdadm /dev/md0 --create -l5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 then formatted with: mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 badblocks shows no error on any of the drives. dyssident@newdeal:~$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid5] md0 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdb1[2] sdc1[1] 234436352 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] unused devices: <none> dyssident@newdeal:~$ dmesg [17180879.388000] EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal [17180879.392000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [17181702.872000] EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 38993924 [17181702.872000] Aborting journal on device md0. [17181702.952000] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data [17181702.956000] EXT3-fs error (device md0) in ext3_prepare_write: Journal has aborted [17181702.960000] ext3_abort called. [17181702.960000] EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal [17181702.960000] Remounting filesystem read-only im stumped, any ideas? thanks much, alan - 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