On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I suspect you will see that improve when you add another drive that it > isn't running degraded. Well, i didn't but it doesn't really matter since the crypto layer slows it down to a crawl Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md6 : active raid5 sdd1[0] sdc1[1] md7[3] md8[4] sde1[2] 3907039232 blocks level 5, 256k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] bitmap: 1/15 pages [4KB], 32768KB chunk md7 : active raid0 sdg1[0] sda1[1] 976767744 blocks 128k chunks md8 : active raid0 sdh1[1] sdb1[0] 976767744 blocks 128k chunks So everything is okay now, no missing drive and the bad drive is now gone. for d in /dev/sd[cde]1 /dev/md[678] /dev/mapper/daten bigfile do echo $d dd if=$d of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1000 done /dev/sdc1 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 6.13302 s, 171 MB/s /dev/sdd1 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 12.2261 s, 85.8 MB/s /dev/sde1 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 11.8026 s, 88.8 MB/s /dev/md6 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 6.42977 s, 163 MB/s /dev/md7 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 9.51655 s, 110 MB/s /dev/md8 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 7.97321 s, 132 MB/s /dev/mapper/daten 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 28.6309 s, 36.6 MB/s bigfile 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 31.9715 s, 32.8 MB/s So the raid works okay, although i'm not thrilled by 163 MB/s read speed when i see what the underlying devices are capable of. But the real bad drop seems to be the crypto and with http://tynne.de/linux-crypto-speed in mind it seems quite a reasonable speed, although i'm disappointed since i expected more. Next time i won't expect but do better tests beforehand. Thanks everyone for their help. Johannes -- 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