Hi Thomas,

On 01/25/2017 08:27 AM, Thomas Warntjen wrote:

On my new Ubuntu Server 16.4 LTS server I have an old RAID5 made from
5+1 WD Red 3TB drives which I wanted to upgrade first to RAID6 (5+2) and
then to 6 data disks, so I added 2 new drives und started the reshape:

[trim /]

This seems to be the same problem this guy had 5 years ago
https://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg37483.html but he got enough disks
going to start the array.
What else is there I can do? This is my last hope :/

kernel: 4.4.0-59-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 6 17:47:47 UTC 2017
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
mdadm: installed was "v3.3 - 3rd September 2013", now updated to "v3.4 -
28th January 2016"

Thanks in advance!

Did you ever get any help?  Or solve it on your own?  This looks like a
missed mail in the list archives.

Phil