On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 17:10 +0100, John Rowe wrote: > First, thanks to all the authors of software RAID, which works really > well. > > I have just one problem(!) and as disks get bigger it gets worse: > reconstruction takes a long time. At the moment I've just had a disk > fail on a 5x250 GB RAID5 array and it's going to take eight days to > recover. Is there anything I can do to speed things up? > > FWIW, each disk is the master drive on an IDE card, two of the disks are > shared with the RAID1 root partition and one of the 5 devices is a RAID0 > stripe. The system isn't doing anything else, it's just used for backup. > you know about /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max and speed_limit_min, right? echo 40000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max see if it goes faster, then. -sv - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
