Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:57:22 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Problem with mke2fs on huge RAID-partition |
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> : > [hdparm] > > NOTE: wrong options will hose your data! WHich is why I don't tell you > > what to use, just look at -m -c (I use 3), -d and -X34. Again, it may bite > > you, have backups. > > The kernel did itself the job through the "autotune" option of ide. > /proc/ide/{hda/hdg}/settings differ only in:
> It can be fast: it does during raid rebuild. > May be the machine simply dislikes me.
What's your stripe size? I have that "this works for me" feeling, although I'd like to know why the drives didn't autotune just the same way, and that might tell someone what's up.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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