From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: skip raid5 reconstruction
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:45:10 +0400
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Ming Zhang wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I am testing some HW performance with raid5 with 2.4.x kenrel.
> 
> It is really troublesome every time I create a raid5, wait 4 hours for
> reconstruction, and then test some data and then recreate another one
> and wait again. I wonder if there is any hack or option available to
> create a raid5 without reconstruct the parity disk. I just have interest
> to test the performance so do not care about data correctness at this
> stage.

Maybe try smaller partitions?

/mjt