Iustin Pop wrote: > Maybe it's because md doesn't support barriers whereas the disks > supports them? In this case some filesystems, for example XFS, will work > faster on raid1 because they can't force the flush to disk using > barriers. It's an ext3 partition, so I guess that doesn't apply? I tried remounting /dev/sda2 with the "barrier=0" option (which I assume disables barriers, looking at the source), though, just to see if it would make any difference, but it didn't; the database build still took 31 minutes. -- Jordan Russell - 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
