you're right, it should be. When I was writing the original mail I had it running in degraded mode so I edited the values that /proc/mdstat gave me to match the array in normal mode. I forgot to make [_UUUU] [UUUUU]. I'm currently rebuilding the array but it's taking some time... md0 : active raid5 hdc1[5] hdk1[4] hdi1[3] hdg1[2] hde1[1] 468872704 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 0 [5/4] [_UUUU] [================>....] recovery = 83.1% (97429504/117218176) finish=65.5min speed=5034K/sec ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Arvai" <arvai@scripps.edu> To: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:49 PM Subject: Re: RAID 5 performance problems > > Shouldn't /proc/mdstat have [UUUUU] instead of [_UUUU]? Perhaps > this is running in degraded mode. Also, you have 'algorithm 0', > whereas my raid5 has 'algorithm 2', which is the left-symmetric > parity algorithm. > > Andy > > > cat /proc/mdstat gives: > > > > Personalities : [raid0] [raid5] > > read_ahead 1024 sectors > > md0 : active raid5 hdk1[4] hdi1[3] hdg1[2] hde1[1] hdc1[0] > > 468872704 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 0 [5/5] [_UUUU] > > unused devices: <none> > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html