From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Spencer Tuttle" Subject: New raid5 took 5 days for initial build on spare drive Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:57:10 -0700 Message-ID: <1131577030.27623.247169656@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Ok, I just created my first ever raid 5 using software raid. I am using a 2.6.14 kernel and the just newly supported MV88SX6041 Marvell SATA Controller. I received the following errors when the device is initialized in the kernel blk_queue_max_hw_segments: set to minimum 1 repeated a bunch of times. And I wonder if this is why it is so slow, my /proc/mdstat shows the following: orion ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid5] md_d0 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdd1[4] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] 234444288 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_] [===================>.] recovery = 98.9% (77292696/78148096) finish=102.9min speed=136K/sec unused devices: As you can see it is almost finished, but it has been a little over 5 days, seems a little high, for 80GB drives, but then again this is my first time using mdadm. Could someone let me know if this is normal or if I have something really messed up. Spencer -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail...