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From: Tim Moore <linux-raid@nsr500.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid5 Construction Question
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:32:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4124F240.20606@nsr500.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4124E24E.7070802@psc.edu>

My raid tab has 'chunk-size 64' and I get 64k chunks.  Does 'chunk-size 
64k' mean 64M chunks?

Did you set stride correctly when running mke2fs (based on 
chunk_size/fs_block_size)?

Either one of these could trash performance.

rgds,
tim

PAulN wrote:
> 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
> ----------------------------------------
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-19 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-19 17:24 Raid5 Construction Question PAulN
2004-08-19 17:30 ` Guy
2004-08-19 17:52   ` PAulN
2004-08-19 18:17     ` Guy
2004-08-19 18:24       ` PAulN
2004-08-19 18:29         ` Guy
2004-08-19 18:35       ` Gordon Henderson
2004-08-19 20:24     ` Maarten van den Berg
2004-08-19 20:26       ` Kourosh
2004-08-19 20:39         ` Mike Hardy
2004-08-19 21:50         ` Maarten van den Berg
2004-08-19 21:55           ` Guy
2004-08-19 20:53       ` Guy
2004-08-20  1:21     ` Neil Brown
2004-08-20  1:56       ` Guy
2004-08-20  2:01         ` Neil Brown
2004-08-20  4:53       ` Paul Nowoczynski
2004-08-19 18:32 ` Tim Moore [this message]
2004-08-19 20:30   ` Maarten van den Berg
2004-08-23 15:24     ` Tim Moore
2004-08-23 15:27       ` Gordon Henderson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-20  5:17 Mike Baynton
2004-08-20  6:52 ` Guy

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