On Tuesday June 17, jmolina@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > I think I figured this out. > > man md > > Read the section regarding the sync_action file. > > do as root; ³echo idle > /sys/block/md2/md/sync_action² > > > > After issuing the idle command, my array says; > > user@host# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > > md2 : active raid5 sdd5[0] sdg5[4] sdh5[3] sdf5[2] sde5[1] > 325283840 blocks super 0.91 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] > [UUUUU] > [=================>...] reshape = 85.3% (138827968/162641920) > finish=279.7min speed=1416K/sec Well done :-) Yes, you've found the bug that was fixed by commit 25156198235325805cd7295ed694509fd6e3a29e which is in 2.6.25. I'm glad you found the workaround. 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