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From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing Drives
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:06:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C465627.5050002@meetinghouse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007210129.41566.james@howells.uk.net>

James Howells wrote:
> Basically, I have a 5 disk RAID-5 array in an Addonics external enclosure.
> Each disk is 1TB in size. Since I am running it over USB, it's takes 3-3.5
> days to resync the disks if something goes pear-shaped.
>
>    
I can't speak to your underlying problem, but if you add an internal (or 
external) bitmap to your array, it speeds up rebuild time considerably.

At create time, you can use the " --bitmap=internal " option.  I know 
you can also add a bitmap to an existing array, but I don't remember the 
magic incantation at the moment (you can probably find it by searching 
the list archives - the topic has come up before).  Or google "write 
intent bitmap."

Miles Fidelman

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord>  practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra



      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-21  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-21  0:29 Missing Drives James Howells
2010-07-21  1:23 ` Mark Knecht
2010-07-21  2:06 ` Miles Fidelman [this message]

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