Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: RAID5 initial rebuild slow, 2.6.16-rc4 | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:57:22 +0000 |
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On Thursday 02 March 2006 16:48, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Hi Neil, > > I recently purchased two SATA2 Western Digital WD2500KS (250GB) HDs to add > to a pair of Maxtor DiamondMax 10's (200GB). I planned to initialise two > 100GB RAID5 arrays spanning all four drives (the remaining 2x50GB on the > new HDs is currently used for booting). > > All the drives are connected to the same controller. I'm running mdadm > 2.3.1, which is the latest version I believe. I created the array with the > following command: > > mdadm --create /dev/md1 --auto=yes --chunk=64 --level=5 > --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2
Okay, adding --force after --auto didn't fix it, but when I ran mkfs.xfs without waiting, the restore speed jumped to 20MB/s. Expected behaviour?
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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