> For the critical section part, it may be your syntax.. > > When I had the problem, Neil showed me the path! :) I don't think it is incorrect, before I thought it was supposted to specify an actual file so I 'touch'ed one and it says file exists. > For your issue, do you have raid5/6 GROW support enabled in the kernel? > Also I grew mine I never used the --backup-file option. I don't know, how would I find this out? uname -r gives me 2.6.20-15-server. Iain - 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