On Saturday July 30, scott-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I'm doing a big rsync to my 5 disk RAID 5 partition and am seeing an > uneven loading of my disks. The files are almost all huge video files. > Has anyone got any idea what I could have done wrong? > > md6 : active raid5 sdi1[4] sdh1[3] sdg1[2] sdf1[1] sde1[0] > 976783360 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] > > The filesystem is ext3 created with > mkfs.ext3 -R stride=32 /dev/md6 I suggest you ask on ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxxx I have seen references to this sort of thing before. I think some metadata gets aligned despite the '-R stride=' flag. Also, I think the stride should be 128 (32 fs-blocks per chunk, 4 chunks per stripe). NeilBrown - 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
