On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:26:40 -0400 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Sure would be nice to have md track whole never written stripes, so > creating an array didn't have to be done over a three day weekend. When > any part of a virgin stripe was written it could then be initialized > properly, and when a virgin stripe was read zeros could be returned > without disk i/o. It doesn't matter that the reads are done in parallel, > with modern disk the bus is the bottleneck. With eSATA arrays the bus is > slow to start with, passing TB through it should be avoided if possible. > Sure would. 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
