From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: PAulN Subject: Raid5 Construction Question Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:24:30 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4124E24E.7070802@psc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, So I have a raid 5 which is around ~1TB and the problem I've been having is that the resync rate is really bad. This is understandable given that the raid5 has not been initialized. Does anyone know a way for me to initialize my raid5 before I use it so that the resync process doesn't run for 3 days? thanks paul Config: ------------------------------------------------- raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 7 nr-spare-disks 1 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 parity-algorithm left-symmetric device /dev/sda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdc1 raid-disk 2 device /dev/sdd1 raid-disk 3 device /dev/sde1 raid-disk 4 device /dev/sdg1 raid-disk 5 device /dev/sdf1 raid-disk 6 device /dev/sdh1 spare-disk 0 ----------------------------------------