Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RAID-5 build time calculation? | From | Steve Lord <> | Date | 14 Nov 2001 09:20:40 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 07:40, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > hi all > > I apologize if this is more of a support question, but I couldn't find it > anywhere... > > How long time may I have to wait for kernel to build a software RAID-5 on > 12 18GB 15k SCSI drives? Algorithm is set to left-symmetric and persistent > superblock is 1. > > What can be done to speed this up_ > > thanks >
I have seen the raid resync get stuck at really slow rates, it seems to start running faster if you echo a larger number into
/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min
You can look at /proc/mdstat to see how the rebuild is progressing.
Steve
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