<me@heyjay.com> writes: > Hi, > > I added a 120GB drive to a degraded raid 1 drive (well it's really 5 > partitions all raid 1). I started last night (maybe 8pm) at this rate it > will be done syncing in just under 24 hours. Is this sync rate expected? I > would have thought 120GB wouldn't have taken that long, I'm running 7200RPM > IDE drives on separate controllers, with an Athlon 3200. My raid1 over two 240GB raid0 arrays sync in about 3 hours. Maybe you are syncing all 5 partitions at the same time. That would be likely to cause a slowdown since the disk would be seeking quite a bit. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se - 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
