All, I started RAID-5 creation using mdadm command. While recovery is happening I tried to install file system . I see intermittent crash . And crash doesn't happen at fixed location. Any clue what could be the problem? How does the read/writes to MD driver handled while RAID-5 is under building. Thanks, Marri -- 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