By default md_do_sync() will perform recovery if no other actions are specified. However, action_show() relies on MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER to be set otherwise it returns 'idle'. So, add a missing set MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER when starting recovery. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Neil, One more to finish off recovery checkpoint support. Without this mdmon never notices that the array was rebuilding and never marks the completion. I did not see any urgency to workaround this in the mdadm patchset, but let me know if you think a "kernel version > 2.6.33-rcX" check is warranted. Thanks, Dan drivers/md/md.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 1cc5f2d..fa93de0 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -4286,6 +4286,7 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) if (spares && mddev->pers->sync_request) { mddev->recovery = 0; set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery); + set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER, &mddev->recovery); mddev->sync_thread = md_register_thread(md_do_sync, mddev, "resync"); -- 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