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From: Mateusz Korniak <mateusz-lists@ant.gliwice.pl>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recovery on new 2TB disk: finish=7248.4min (raid1)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:54:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5492628.c8B43Z4h0G@matkor-lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22785.65375.947842.648174@quad.stoffel.home>

On Thursday 27 of April 2017 10:25:35 John Stoffel wrote:
> Ron> issued these commands one after the other:
> 
> Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/mdo /dev/sdb1
> Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md1 /dev/sdb2
> Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3
> Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md3 /dev/sdb5
> Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md4 /dev/sdb6
> Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md5 /dev/sdb7
> Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md6 /dev/sdb8
> Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md7 /dev/sdb9
> 
> Ugh!  You're setting yourself up for a true seek storm here, and way
> too much pain down the road, IMHO.  Just mirror the entire disk and
> put LVM volumes on top.  

Why having several md devices leads to "seek storm"?

They will be synced one by one, just like one big md device.

Regards,
-- 
Mateusz Korniak
"(...) mam brata - poważny, domator, liczykrupa, hipokryta, pobożniś,
 	krótko mówiąc - podpora społeczeństwa."
				Nikos Kazantzakis - "Grek Zorba"


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-27 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-26 21:57 Recovery on new 2TB disk: finish=7248.4min (raid1) Ron Leach
2017-04-27 14:25 ` John Stoffel
2017-04-27 14:43   ` Reindl Harald
2017-04-28  7:05     ` Ron Leach
2017-04-27 14:54   ` Mateusz Korniak [this message]
2017-04-27 19:03     ` John Stoffel
2017-04-27 19:42       ` Reindl Harald
2017-04-28  7:30         ` Mateusz Korniak
2017-04-30 12:04       ` Nix
2017-04-30 13:21         ` Roman Mamedov
2017-04-30 16:10           ` Nix
2017-04-30 16:47             ` Roman Mamedov
2017-05-01 21:13               ` Nix
2017-05-01 21:44                 ` Anthony Youngman
2017-05-01 21:46                 ` Roman Mamedov
2017-05-01 21:53                   ` Anthony Youngman
2017-05-01 22:03                     ` Roman Mamedov
2017-05-02  6:10                       ` Wols Lists
2017-05-02 10:02                         ` Nix
2017-05-01 23:26                   ` Nix
2017-04-30 17:16             ` Wols Lists
2017-05-01 20:12               ` Nix
2017-04-27 14:58 ` Mateusz Korniak
2017-04-27 19:01   ` Ron Leach
2017-04-28  7:06     ` Mateusz Korniak

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