From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: Sync rates? Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:48:28 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <00c501c433a3$2822c670$6705a8c0@a30> References: <00a401c4339e$7f86b340$6705a8c0@a30> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= List-Id: linux-raid.ids >> Hi, >> >> I added a 120GB drive to a degraded raid 1 drive (well it's really 5 >> partitions all raid 1). I started last night (maybe 8pm) at this rate it >> will be done syncing in just under 24 hours. Is this sync rate expected? I >> would have thought 120GB wouldn't have taken that long, I'm running 7200RPM >> IDE drives on separate controllers, with an Athlon 3200. >My raid1 over two 240GB raid0 arrays sync in about 3 hours. Maybe you >are syncing all 5 partitions at the same time. That would be likely >to cause a slowdown since the disk would be seeking quite a bit. Indeed I did sync them all at the same time. But when I cat /proc/mdstat four partitions were delaying syncing while on performed a sync Jay