On Saturday June 2, groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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. raid6 reshape wasn't added until 2.6.21. Before that only raid5 was supported. You also need to ensure that CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE=y. 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