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From: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk I/O error while rebuilding an md raid-5 array
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:26:32 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <614f278c776be50b11520bfd3e2168ae@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a329d911002082024j50fba7fcq717fe03d00209533@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:24:09 -0600, Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> It appears clonezilla is using dd and the speed is extremely
>>> slow (~5MB/sec) and it says it's gonna take 1 day to clone the 500GB.
>>
>> BTW, is it normal for dd to be this slow, or is there something wrong
>> with my setup?  These are quite modern drives and should be able to
>> handle sequential transfer of 10's of MB/s.  I have never used dd
>> before so I don't have any experience.
> 
> dd should be pretty close to the max possible throughput of yer drive.
>  For example, I dd'd a 1T WD black not too long ago & it was around
> 120MB/s on the outside & 70MB/s in the middle.

I think this depends more on the block size that is used. 1MB block sizes
are much faster than 512 byte blocks...

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-08 23:23 Disk I/O error while rebuilding an md raid-5 array Dawning Sky
2010-02-09  0:04 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-02-09  0:45   ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09 10:22     ` Jon Hardcastle
2010-02-09 11:57   ` John Robinson
2010-02-09 17:43     ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09 19:28       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-02-09  1:23 ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09  4:24   ` Wil Reichert
2010-02-09  4:26     ` Steven Haigh [this message]
2010-02-09  4:37       ` Wil Reichert
2010-02-09  4:20 ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09  6:57   ` Stefan Hübner
2010-02-09  7:39     ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09  8:05       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
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2010-02-09  0:25 russ

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