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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
To: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: component growing in raid5
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:08 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EC1B04.7040006@sauce.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0803261016550.15900@montezuma.acc.umu.se>

Mattias Wadenstein wrote:

>> A day or two? That's quite risky. Never mind that you get awful
>> performance for that day or two and/or a risk of data corruption.
>> Neil Brown some weeks on this mailing list expressed a very
>> cautionary thought:
>>
>> «It is really best to avoid degraded raid4/5/6 arrays when at all
>>  possible. NeilBrown»
> 
> 
> Yes, I read that mail. I've been meaning to do some real-world testing 
> of restarting degraded/rebuilding raid6es from various vendors, 
> including MD, but haven't gotten around to it.

You may be interested in these results - throughput results on an 8 SATA 
drive RAID6 showed average write speed went from 348MB/s to 354MB/s and 
read speed 349MB/s to 196MB/s, while rebuilding with 2 failed drives. 
This was with an Areca 1680x RAID controller.

http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/areca/1680x/

Regards,

Richard
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-27 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-23  6:59 component growing in raid5 Nagy Zoltan
2008-03-23 11:24 ` Peter Grandi
2008-03-24  7:09 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-03-24  7:09 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-03-24 15:17   ` Nagy Zoltan
2008-03-24 15:42     ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-03-24 16:52       ` Nagy Zoltan
2008-03-25 13:06     ` Peter Grandi
2008-03-25 13:38       ` Mattias Wadenstein
2008-03-25 20:02         ` Peter Grandi
2008-03-27 20:44           ` Mattias Wadenstein
2008-03-27 22:09             ` Richard Scobie [this message]
2008-03-28  8:07               ` Mattias Wadenstein

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