I had a 4x500GB SATA2 array, md0. I added one 500GB drive and reshaping began at ~2500K/sec. Changing /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_m{in,ax} or /sys/block/md0/md/sync_speed_m{in,ax} had no effect. I shut down all unnecessary services and the array is offline (not mounted). I have read that the throttling code is "fragile" (esp. with regard to raid5) but does this make sense? I will wait (in)patiently for it to finish, but I do wonder why the configuration parameters have no effect. This is a dual quad 2GHz Xeon machine with 8GB of memory running RHEL5. Is this the maximum speed? - 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