On 02/19/2011 03:43 AM, Simon Mcnair wrote: > Phil, > Sorry for the spamming, but I'm just keeping you informed :-). > > proxmox:/home/simon# ./block2gz.sh sdd /media/ntfs3g/sdb > 953869+1 records in > 953869+1 records out > 1000204886016 bytes (1.0 TB) copied, 95384 s, 10.5 MB/s [trim /] > Have just started sdj,sdk,sdl,sdm. I was thinking of renaming the > .gz's with the serial number as this would seem to me as more useful, > is this a good idea ? Yes. I guess they'll finish some time tomorrow? > These numbers are not at all reflective of the drive or controller > speed as I took the lazy route and was writing 2 sets of images at the > same time to the same drive and in addition gzip was also running > (although not really stressing the system from what I could tell). The CPU was busy, but not overloaded. The per-drive data rates were 1/5th to 1/10th what I would have expected. The Asus P6T SE motherboard has a lot of bandwidth. Something's odd. Can you attach a copy of your dmesg? > I suspect also that the drives may be pretty fragmented as the space > was not allocated at the start of the write, so that may have had some > impact too. Ntfs-3g can push 70+ MB/s onto my heavily fragged Windows laptop partition with only 50% of a Core2 Duo. I doubt that's it. Phil -- 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
