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From: Christopher Smith <csmith@nighthawkrad.net>
To: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid sync observations
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:55:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A8B623.5060704@nighthawkrad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Eol86-0008Ju-3J@highlab.com>

Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> I just created a RAID array (4-disk RAID-6).  When "mdadm -C" returned,
> /proc/mdstat showed it syncing the new array at about 17 MB/s.  "vmstat 1"
> showed hardly any blocks in or out, and an almost completely idle cpu.

This isn't really relevant to your questions but...

Why would you use RAID6 and not RAID10 with four disks ?

CS

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-21  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-20 17:18 Raid sync observations Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-12-20 18:14 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-12-20 21:27 ` Neil Brown
2005-12-20 21:33   ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-12-21  1:55 ` Christopher Smith [this message]
2005-12-21 11:49   ` Andy Smith
2005-12-21 17:02     ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-12-21 17:13       ` Gordon Henderson
2006-01-08 18:18         ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-20 18:27 Andrew Burgess
2005-12-20 19:13 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-12-20 22:09 Jeff Breidenbach

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