On May 8, 2013, at 8:16 PM, "NeilBrown" <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > The backup.md file really should not have been empty. > Assuming you are sure it was the right file something must have gone wrong. > Not overly surprising as it is hard to test that particular stage of reshape: > an interruption to the reshape very late in a shrink could get messy. > > I've made a note to try testing it when I next spend some time on mdadm. > > Thanks, > NeilBrown > That makes sense then, both times that I had this problem it was empty and there was nothing that could have caused it to have a problem. I'll play with a couple things and see if I can find where the issue was also. Thank you... Sam -- 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