Hey, i am really stuck with a problem. I tried to reshape my raid5 with 3 disks, to 4 disks. The reshape ran this night, until 94% and got stuck in this process. I can see this message in syslog: „task md0_reshape blocked for more than 120 seconds“ After seeing it hanging I set the new drive to faulty and removed it during the hanging reshape progress - I thought the added drive was the issue. If I take a look at top, there is a md0 process which is stuck at 100% cpu. Originally the system runs on xenserver 7.2 - I booted up a newer live disk of ubuntu 18.04 to look how the newer mdadm version does. - No chance. If I try to assemble my raid on the live dvd, there’s the same issue. Have done this with: mdadm —assemble —scan Here are some logs: /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue May 31 18:18:33 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 3906766848 (3725.78 GiB 4000.53 GB) Used Dev Size : 1953383424 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Tue Feb 26 09:27:51 2019 State : clean, degraded, reshaping Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Consistency Policy : bitmap Reshape Status : 94% complete Delta Devices : 1, (3->4) Name : maulwurfshuegel:0 UUID : b0f13031:163a65b5:2acfee57:dc39a18f Events : 8194152 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 8 1 1 active sync /dev/sda1 3 8 17 2 active sync /dev/sdb1 - 0 0 3 removed /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x45 Array UUID : b0f13031:163a65b5:2acfee57:dc39a18f Name : maulwurfshuegel:0 Creation Time : Tue May 31 18:18:33 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 3906766991 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 5860150272 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906766848 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 260096 sectors New Offset : 257024 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 4f7cc9bc:78c54dbd:9cd93978:7d1ca9fb Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 5508850176 (5253.65 GiB 5641.06 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (3->4) Update Time : Tue Feb 26 08:46:25 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : eed30521 - correct Events : 8194149 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x4d Array UUID : b0f13031:163a65b5:2acfee57:dc39a18f Name : maulwurfshuegel:0 Creation Time : Tue May 31 18:18:33 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 3906767024 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 5860150272 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906766848 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 260096 sectors New Offset : 257024 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 6696cd3f:a7439cef:c8d26a6e:186869ea Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 5508850176 (5253.65 GiB 5641.06 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (3->4) Update Time : Tue Feb 26 08:46:25 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors - bad blocks present. Checksum : 8916e961 - correct Events : 8194149 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x4d Array UUID : b0f13031:163a65b5:2acfee57:dc39a18f Name : maulwurfshuegel:0 Creation Time : Tue May 31 18:18:33 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 3906766991 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 5860150272 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906766848 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 260096 sectors New Offset : 257024 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 48b8f98f:e1c5639b:29b22511:6285341e Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 5508850176 (5253.65 GiB 5641.06 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (3->4) Update Time : Tue Feb 26 08:46:25 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors - bad blocks present. Checksum : 5b908bc3 - correct Events : 8194149 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) What could possibly the next steps? Thanks Guys! Greetings Brian