On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/23/2013 10:01 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: >> Hello Martin >> >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 07/23/2013 08:52 PM, Martin Wilck wrote: >>>> Which MD version are you using? >>> >>> I meant: which mdadm version. Sorry. >>> >> >> I'm using mdadm version 3.2.3 >> >> I'll give the current git version a try tomorrow. >> >> The thing is that I need to wait the sync to finish in order to test >> this problem. But the sync takes a while (> 4 hours, I don't remember >> exactly). Are there any ways to speed up the process ? > > MD will adjust its speed while initializing, thus the fastest way is to > do nothing on the system, avoiding any other disk IO. This will cause MD > to use max bandwidth. > > One thing you can do for testing is to create a smaller array which will > of course initialize faster. Unfortunately I can't do that: the array was created by the BIOS and AFAICS it does on the whole disks. > > Please run mdadm -E /dev/sdX for all RAID disks before and after reboot > and watch out for differences. Will do. Thanks. -- Francis -- 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
