From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Failed RAID5 array grow after reboot interruption; mdadm:  Failed
 to restore critical section for reshape, sorry.
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:34:46 +1200
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Jesse Molina wrote:
> Thanks.  I'll give the updated mdadm binary a try.  It certainly looks
> plausible that this was a recently fixed mdadm bug.
> 
> For the record, I think you typoed this below.  You meant to say v2.6.4,
> rather than v2.4.4.  My current version was v2.6.3.  The current mdadm
> version appears to be v2.6.4, and Debian currently has a -2 release.

The latest version is 2.6.7

http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/

For some reason, Neil's http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ 
repository is not up to date.

Don't use 2.6.5 or 2.6.6 as they may cause segfaults.

Regards,

Richard