My /dev/md0 is created in 2.4.18 and accessible in 2.4.19, 2.4.20, 2.5.58 to 2.5.62. As upgraded to 2.5.63, after mounting /dev/md0 to /mnt/md0, then cd /mnt/md0, it Oops. Finally, I re-mkraid /dev/md0, then e2fsck /dev/md0, then it Oops again with the following details: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010046 eax: 00000000 ebx: dfbc88bc ecx: dfbc89e0 edx: dfee8720 esi: dfee8720 edi: dfbc8994 ebp: dfe88000 esp: dfe89f4c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process events/0 (pid: 3, threadinfo=dfe88000 task=dfe8cc40) Stack: c02fe847 dfbc88bc dfbc8998 c0130983 dfbc88bc dfee8724 dfe88000 dfbc88bc c02fe850 dfee8724 dfee8720 dfe8ffa8 dfee872c c01305f8 dfee8720 dfe89fa0 00000000 00000000 dfe88000 dfe88000 dfe88000 00000001 00000000 c011e770 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: Bad EIP value. <6>note: events/0[3] exited with preempt_count 1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ My .config is attached as config-2.5.63. Regards, Sampson Fung A New Comer to Kernel Testing.