On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:29:30PM +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Hello list, > > I just created a RAID1 array consisting of two disks. After experiments with > processes *reading* from the device (badblocks, dd) and the iostat program, I > can see that only one disk is being utilised for reading. To be exact, every > time I execute the command one of the two disks is being randomly used, but > the other one has absolutely no activity. > > My question is: why isn't load balancing happening? Is there an option I'm > missing? Until now I though it was the default for all RAID1 implementations. Did you read the archives of this list? This question has been answered, like, 4 times already in the last months. And yes, the driver does do load balancing. Just not as RAID0 does, since it's not RAID0. regards, iustin - 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
