On 21/04/2009 01:10, Johannes Segitz wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:46 AM, John Robinson
<john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would have thought it's because you're running in degraded mode and one in
3 sectors is having to be regenerated from the parity. It still seems a bit
slow, though.
i don't think that that is a problem. The data is there without
redundancy so i can't see
how there would be the need to calculate anything
There's no redundancy but it's still the RAID-5 4-disc layout with 3
data and 1 parity, the parity on a different disc in each stripe. In
your case with a missing disc, for 3 stripes in 4 you have 2 data and 1
parity. Of course the parity is having to be calculated when you're
writing, and whatever would be written to your missing disc is being
discarded.
On the other hand if you were using RAID-0 over 3 discs there would be
no need to calculate anything.
Cheers,
John.
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