I created a RAID5 array which consisted of 3 disks. #mdadm -C /dev/md0 --metadata=1.1 --bitmap=internal -l5 -n3 /dev/sd{a,b,c} Before initial recovery was done, I reboot my system. After system is on, initial recovery didn't continue. #cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] md0 : active raid5 sda[0] sdc[3] sdb[1] 976772864 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] I removed '--bitmap' option and retest again, there was no problem and recovery continued. Is there something wrong? Any help will be appreciated! -- The simplest is not all best but the best is surely the simplest! -- 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