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From: Brad Campbell <lists2009@fnarfbargle.com>
To: Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid5 to raid6 reshape or recreate?
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:29:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53EC2D0E.2070402@fnarfbargle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABY_QbU4KWwtqp-TfOz13QMO134WA1J7i5jEFDozwy8aQwV1QQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 14/08/14 01:25, Ram Ramesh wrote:

> On a slightly different topic, will it be faster after a disk
> fail/replacement as opposed to raid reshaping?

Much.
I just re-striped a RAID6 changing the chunk size from 128k to 64k. This 
took 12 days all up. It's the seeking that kills it. To replace a disk 
or do a resync on the same array takes less than 10 hours.




  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-14  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-13  1:05 Raid5 to raid6 reshape or recreate? Ram Ramesh
2014-08-13  9:02 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2014-08-13 17:25 ` Ram Ramesh
2014-08-14  3:29   ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2014-08-14  4:10     ` Ram Ramesh
2014-08-14  6:06       ` Brad Campbell

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