Neil, As you said, reap_sync_thread is a much better place for this patch... brassow This patch causes MD to generate an event (for device-mapper) when the synchronization thread is reaped. This is expected behavior for device-mapper. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/md.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/md.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/md.c @@ -7148,6 +7148,8 @@ static void reap_sync_thread(mddev_t *md set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery); sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(mddev->sysfs_action); md_new_event(mddev); + if (mddev->event_work.func) + queue_work(md_misc_wq, &mddev->event_work); } /* -- 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