Hi, I was attempting to reshape a RAID5 from 4 to 5 devices. During the reshape, I had a problem with one of the controller cards in the machine, so that first one drive, had repeated errors (and was eventually marked as failed), and then several hours later, I/O to another drive effectively stalled. At this point, /proc/mdstat was showing the reshape proceeding (with one drive marked as failed), but the throughput had dropped to zero. After rebooting the machine (alt-sysrq s, u, b) the array won't reassemble (with or without '--force')... (I've now replaced the card, and read all data on all drives successfully...) [ 2716.070788] raid5: md1 is not clean -- starting background reconstruction [ 2716.070984] raid5: reshape will continue [ 2716.071166] raid5: device sda1 operational as raid disk 0 [ 2716.071350] raid5: device sdi1 operational as raid disk 4 [ 2716.071534] raid5: device sdj1 operational as raid disk 3 [ 2716.071715] raid5: device sdk1 operational as raid disk 1 [ 2716.072217] raid5: allocated 5334kB for md1 [ 2716.072452] 0: w=1 pa=2 pr=4 m=1 a=2 r=5 op1=0 op2=0 [ 2716.072633] 4: w=2 pa=2 pr=4 m=1 a=2 r=5 op1=0 op2=0 [ 2716.072816] 3: w=3 pa=2 pr=4 m=1 a=2 r=5 op1=0 op2=0 [ 2716.073001] 1: w=4 pa=2 pr=4 m=1 a=2 r=5 op1=0 op2=0 [ 2716.073180] raid5: cannot start dirty degraded array for md1 [ 2716.073372] RAID5 conf printout: [ 2716.073544] --- rd:5 wd:4 [ 2716.073717] disk 0, o:1, dev:sda1 [ 2716.073884] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdk1 [ 2716.074071] disk 3, o:1, dev:sdj1 [ 2716.074239] disk 4, o:1, dev:sdi1 [ 2716.074575] raid5: failed to run raid set md1 [ 2716.074749] md: pers->run() failed ... Any chance of carrying on where it left off, or should I recreate the array from scratch? # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 6.0.2 Linux rodmell 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 14 09:42:28 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : inactive sda1[0] sdi1[5] sdj1[4] sdk1[1] 7814054112 blocks super 1.2 # mdadm -E /dev/sd[hijak]1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x4 Array UUID : 717d7de6:49a886f6:fb20ac87:5a1e8a84 Name : rodmell:1 (local to host rodmell) Creation Time : Mon Dec 19 18:00:13 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 3907027056 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 15628103680 (7452.06 GiB 8001.59 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 1bf82ae0:82b71e9b:6283dc62:467026fc Reshape pos'n : 1622353920 (1547.20 GiB 1661.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (4->5) Update Time : Mon Aug 20 08:42:56 2012 Checksum : 46d057ad - correct Events : 24587 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA.AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdh1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x4 Array UUID : 717d7de6:49a886f6:fb20ac87:5a1e8a84 Name : rodmell:1 (local to host rodmell) Creation Time : Mon Dec 19 18:00:13 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 3907027056 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 15628103680 (7452.06 GiB 8001.59 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 3e9cca4d:3872738b:1903ee56:5a91b935 Reshape pos'n : 10582016 (10.09 GiB 10.84 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (4->5) Update Time : Thu Aug 16 17:30:46 2012 Checksum : 12400b18 - correct Events : 15896 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdi1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x4 Array UUID : 717d7de6:49a886f6:fb20ac87:5a1e8a84 Name : rodmell:1 (local to host rodmell) Creation Time : Mon Dec 19 18:00:13 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 3907027056 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 15628103680 (7452.06 GiB 8001.59 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 904de121:58fbef1d:16546bd7:d3ab29c5 Reshape pos'n : 1622353920 (1547.20 GiB 1661.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (4->5) Update Time : Fri Aug 17 01:32:23 2012 Checksum : 48e5a3d3 - correct Events : 24586 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : AA.AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdj1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x4 Array UUID : 717d7de6:49a886f6:fb20ac87:5a1e8a84 Name : rodmell:1 (local to host rodmell) Creation Time : Mon Dec 19 18:00:13 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 3907027056 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 15628103680 (7452.06 GiB 8001.59 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 59efcddf:9e679807:09ce1bc4:d882af69 Reshape pos'n : 1622353920 (1547.20 GiB 1661.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (4->5) Update Time : Mon Aug 20 08:42:56 2012 Checksum : 81b55c43 - correct Events : 24587 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : AA.AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdk1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x4 Array UUID : 717d7de6:49a886f6:fb20ac87:5a1e8a84 Name : rodmell:1 (local to host rodmell) Creation Time : Mon Dec 19 18:00:13 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 3907027056 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 15628103680 (7452.06 GiB 8001.59 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 31b29cdb:0b70201e:de2036a4:5aecda02 Reshape pos'n : 1622353920 (1547.20 GiB 1661.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (4->5) Update Time : Mon Aug 20 08:42:56 2012 Checksum : d51e3dc - correct Events : 24587 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AA.AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) Cheers, Tim. -- 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