Author is exaggerating. We recover 6 TB RAID-5 on desktop-class hardware in less then 6 hours. Our RAID is controlled by LSR (Linux Software RAID). Performance is not good while rebuilding a single node, but GlusterFS replicate/distribute translators help. Arvids Godjuks wrote: > Consider this - a rebuild of 1.5-2 TB HDD in raid5/6 array can easily > take up to few days to complete. At that moment your storage at that > node will not perform well. I read a week ago very good article with > research of this area, only thing it's in russian, but it mentions a > few english sources too. Maybe google translate will help. > Here's the original link: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/hardware/78311/ > Here's the google translate version: > http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhabrahabr.ru%2Fblogs%2Fhardware%2F78311%2F&sl=ru&tl=en > (looks quite neet by the way) > > 2010/1/5 Liam Slusser <lslusser at gmail.com>: > >> Larry & All, >> >> I would much rather rebuild a bad drive with a raid controller then >> have to wait for Gluster to do it. With a large number of files doing >> a ls -aglR can take weeks. Also you don't NEED enterprise drives with >> a raid controller, i use desktop 1.5tb Seagate drives which happy as a >> clam on a 3ware SAS card under a SAS expander. >> >> liam >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >