Hi mailing list, On my old model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz I'm currently seeing a resync speed of around 200MB/s! ~ $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid6 sdg1[0] sde1[7] sdh1[8] sdf1[5] sdc1[3] sdd1[4] sdb1[9] 9751756800 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [7/7] [UUUUUUU] [======>..............] check = 32.6% (636923520/1950351360) finish=111.2min speed=196740K/sec unused devices: <none> This ia almost 10 times higher than what I used to see on 3.2 and earlier. What's that about? The array is a 7 drive RAID6: $ sudo mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Oct 19 08:58:41 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 9751756800 (9300.00 GiB 9985.80 GB) Used Dev Size : 1950351360 (1860.00 GiB 1997.16 GB) Raid Devices : 7 Total Devices : 7 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Apr 2 22:18:14 2012 State : clean, checking Active Devices : 7 Working Devices : 7 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Check Status : 32% complete Name : ion:0 (local to host ion) UUID : e6595c64:b3ae90b3:f01133ac:3f402d20 Events : 6773811 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 97 0 active sync /dev/sdg1 9 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 4 8 49 2 active sync /dev/sdd1 3 8 33 3 active sync /dev/sdc1 5 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 8 8 113 5 active sync /dev/sdh1 7 8 65 6 active sync /dev/sde1 Best regards, Mathias -- 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