Hi folks, after fail of a disk on my raid6 sw I check with dd the performance of raid: dd if=/dev/zero of=degradedraid bs=1000024 count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 100002400 bytes (100 MB) copied, 288.254 s, 347 kB/s is it correct? only 347Kb/s on a raid6 degraded? mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Mon Sep 27 14:19:15 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 5860543744 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 1465135936 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 7 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat May 21 13:14:43 2011 State : active, degraded Active Devices : 5 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 2 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 9bd6372e:e2eab1d5:d2bdc3cb:ad12f41d Events : 0.385693 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 0 0 2 removed 3 8 81 3 active sync /dev/sdf1 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 5 8 49 5 active sync /dev/sdd1 6 8 145 - faulty spare 7 8 33 - faulty spare thanks! Pol -- 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