On Thursday 27 of April 2017 10:25:35 John Stoffel wrote: > Ron> issued these commands one after the other: > > Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/mdo /dev/sdb1 > Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md1 /dev/sdb2 > Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 > Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md3 /dev/sdb5 > Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md4 /dev/sdb6 > Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md5 /dev/sdb7 > Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md6 /dev/sdb8 > Ron> # mdadm --manage -a /dev/md7 /dev/sdb9 > > Ugh! You're setting yourself up for a true seek storm here, and way > too much pain down the road, IMHO. Just mirror the entire disk and > put LVM volumes on top. Why having several md devices leads to "seek storm"? They will be synced one by one, just like one big md device. Regards, -- Mateusz Korniak "(...) mam brata - poważny, domator, liczykrupa, hipokryta, pobożniś, krótko mówiąc - podpora społeczeństwa." Nikos Kazantzakis - "Grek Zorba" -- 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
