If this is user error I'd expect a discreet error message, but I don't get one, just a hang during the reshape following successful --grow command (going from 3x device raid5 to 4x device raid5). # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md127 : active raid5 loop3[4] loop2[3] loop1[1] loop0[0] 2095104 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] [>....................] reshape = 0.0% (0/1047552) finish=7.0min speed=2402K/sec Reproduces with: kernel-3.17.6-300.fc21.x86_64 mdadm-3.3.2-1.fc21.x86_64 and 3.18.0-2.fc22.i686+debug mdadm-3.3.2-1.fc21.i686 Details are here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89851 -- Chris Murphy -- 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