Thanks, that is a workaround as well. :P I already solve this by using mkraid. Ming On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:45 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I am testing some HW performance with raid5 with 2.4.x kenrel. > > > > It is really troublesome every time I create a raid5, wait 4 hours for > > reconstruction, and then test some data and then recreate another one > > and wait again. I wonder if there is any hack or option available to > > create a raid5 without reconstruct the parity disk. I just have interest > > to test the performance so do not care about data correctness at this > > stage. > > Maybe try smaller partitions? > > /mjt - 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