Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On October 9, 2011, Wakko Warner wrote: > > On another note, I used this feature to clean the dust out of my disk array > > in another system. Fail a drive, read the array to verify which drive I > > physically failed, remove it, clean the dust off, add it back, wait for > > resync to complete and then do another disk. Resync on that was quick for > > the 750gb member. Without a bitmap, resync time on that system is 3 hours. > > Try it on a 7 1TB drive raid5. fun times. I imagine its much worse with 2, 3 > or 4 TB drives. (though not many people have a bunch of internal 4TB drives I > imagine). Actually, I have, well sort of. I have an 8 drive raid6 (2tb disks). It takes about the same time as a 4 drive raid5 with the same disks. -- Microsoft has beaten Volkswagen's world record. Volkswagen only created 22 million bugs. -- 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
