On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:15:31 +0200
Bob Marley <bobmar...@shiftmail.org> wrote:

> Hi TM, are you doing other significant filesystem activity during this 
> rebuild, especially random accesses?
> This can reduce performances a lot on HDDs.
> E.g. if you were doing strenous multithreaded random writes in the 
> meanwhile, I could expect even less than 5MB/sec overall...

I believe the problem here might be that a Btrfs rebuild *is* a strenuous
random read (+ random-ish write) just by itself.

Mdadm-based RAID would rebuild the array reading/writing disks in a completely
linear manner, and it would finish an order of magnitude faster.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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