I was reshaping my 5 drive raid 5 with spare to a raid 6 array when the drive I was using for my backup went offline. If that's not murphy's law, I don't know what is. The array is still up and usable, but I'm afraid to reboot or doing anything to it, really. Suggestions on getting this thing back to usable are very welcome. Thanks, Travis Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md126 : active raid6 sde3[0] sdf3[3] sdb3[1] sdd3[4] sdc3[2] 5856728064 blocks super 0.91 level 6, 512k chunk, algorithm 18 [5/4] [UUUU_] [>....................] reshape = 0.9% (19267584/1952242688) finish=623878.3min speed=51K/sec /dev/md126: Version : 0.91 Creation Time : Wed Nov 10 20:19:03 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 5856728064 (5585.41 GiB 5997.29 GB) Used Dev Size : 1952242688 (1861.80 GiB 1999.10 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 126 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Nov 12 21:55:46 2011 State : clean, degraded, recovering Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric-6 Chunk Size : 512K Reshape Status : 0% complete New Layout : left-symmetric UUID : 3fd8b303:7727aa3b:c5d110f2:f9137e1d Events : 0.124051 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 67 0 active sync /dev/sde3 1 8 19 1 active sync /dev/sdb3 2 8 35 2 active sync /dev/sdc3 3 8 83 3 active sync /dev/sdf3 4 8 51 4 spare rebuilding /dev/sdd3-- 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