Hi Michael, {Added the list back and fixed the top-posting. Convention on kernel.org is to reply-to-all, trim replies, and bottom post or interleave.} On 10/27/2015 08:28 AM, Michael Munger wrote: > On 10/27/2015 08:23 AM, Phil Turmel wrote: >> On 10/27/2015 08:17 AM, Michael Munger wrote: >>> Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] >>> md0 : active raid5 sdd1[3] sdc1[1] sdb1[0] >>> 3906764800 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] >>> [UU_] >>> [>....................] recovery = 0.1% (2611780/1953382400) >>> finish=1737.7min speed=18709K/sec >>> bitmap: 0/15 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk >> What's to fix? Did you try waiting for the recovery to finish? >> Creating an array generally isn't instant -- the redundancy has to be >> computed over the entire array. >> >> Now, you might have speed limits that are making it slower than possible >> (see man md), but multiple hours on big devices is perfectly normal. > I thought [UU_] indicated a physical drive problem, not logical array > issue. I'll wait until 2pm when this is supposed to finish and re-check. I mentioned the speed limits because 20MB/sec is kinda low for modern drives. You can probably speed that up. > It will be GREAT if that's all it was... my being impatient! > > PS... lsdrv is a great utility. thanks for making it available on Github. You're welcome :-) 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