>> 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. Indeed I did sync them all at the same time. But when I cat /proc/mdstat four partitions were delaying syncing while on performed a sync Jay - 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
