Hi Neil, Here is the output I've got : bleh mdadm # ./mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bdef]1 --backup-file backup -v mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1. mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3. mdadm: /dev/sdf1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. mdadm:/dev/md0 has an active reshape - checking if critical section needs to be restored mdadm: too-old timestamp on backup-metadata on backup mdadm: Failed to find backup of critical section mdadm: Failed to restore critical section for reshape, sorry. The backup file is of course the one I've been using for the grow command. The values I've got : - info->array.utime : 1256026602 - bsb.mtime : 1256020033 My timezone is Europe/Brussels if that matters. Removing this check makes the reshape continue and the array start correctly. Let me know if you want me to do some more tests. HTH, Guy On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:54:43 +1100 "NeilBrown" <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried to reproduce this and failed - it works perfectly for me. > > I have added some more tracing messages to --assemble which are > enabled by --verbose. > Could you please pull the latest devel-3.1 branch from my git tree and > try the same assemble command but with --verbose at the end and > report the result. > > Thanks. > 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