Another update: things didn't quite go as planned .. the reshape didn't quite finish - it got to 99.9% and stopped there: md0 : active raid6 sdq[0] sdc[12] sdb[11] sda[10] sdo[9] sdn[8] sdm[7] sdl[6] sdv[5] sdu[4] sdd[3] sds[2] sdr[1] 9767624960 blocks super 0.91 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [12/12] [UUUUUUUUUUUU] [===================>.] reshape = 99.9% (976761856/976762496) finish=0.0min speed=4K/sec I left it overnight hence the low speed average. A stop and restart using the backup-file also didn't end well: array:/tmp/mdadm-3.1.2 # ./mdadm -S /dev/md0 mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 array:/tmp/mdadm-3.1.2 # ./mdadm -A /dev/md0 --backup-file /export/md0-backup mdadm: Failed to restore critical section for reshape, sorry. (the backup-file isn't on the array being reshaped). Looks like the code's almost there but not quite .. there are 640 remaining blocks. array:/tmp/mdadm-3.1.2 # uname -a Linux array 2.6.34-rc3-7-default #1 SMP 2010-03-31 17:12:53 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux array:/tmp/mdadm-3.1.2 # ./mdadm -V mdadm - v3.1.2 - 10th March 2010 array:/tmp/mdadm-3.1.2 # Any ideas ? Cheers, Brett. -- 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