A resync/reshape/recovery thread will refuse to progress when the array is marked read-only. So whenever it mark it not read-only, it is important to wake up thread resync thread. There is one place we didn't do this. The problem manifests if the start_ro module parameters is set, and a raid5 array that is in the middle of a reshape (restripe) is started. The array will initially be semi-read-only (meaning it acts like it is readonly until the first write). So the reshape will not proceed. On the first write, the array will become read-write, but the reshape will not be started, and there is no event which will ever restart that thread. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c --- .prev/drivers/md/md.c 2008-02-22 15:46:25.000000000 +1100 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2008-02-22 15:46:52.000000000 +1100 @@ -5356,6 +5356,7 @@ void md_write_start(mddev_t *mddev, stru mddev->ro = 0; set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery); md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread); + md_wakeup_thread(mddev->sync_thread); } atomic_inc(&mddev->writes_pending); if (mddev->in_sync) { -- 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