On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:

p34:~# mdadm /dev/md3 --zero-superblock
p34:~# mdadm --examine --scan
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=f463057c:9a696419:3bcb794a:7aaa12b2 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=98e4948c:c6685f82:e082fd95:e7f45529 ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=330c9879:73af7d3e:57f4c139:f9191788 ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid0 num-devices=10 UUID=6dc12c36:b3517ff9:083fb634:68e9eb49
p34:~#

I cannot seem to get rid of /dev/md3, its almost as if there is a piece of it on the root (2) disks or reference to it?

I also dd'd the other 10 disks (non-root) and /dev/md3 persists.



Hopefully this will clear it out:

p34:~# for i in /dev/sd[c-l]; do /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=$i bs=1M & done
[1] 4625
[2] 4626
[3] 4627
[4] 4628
[5] 4629
[6] 4630
[7] 4631
[8] 4632
[9] 4633
[10] 4634
p34:~#

Good aggregate bandwidth at least writing to all 10 disks.

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system------cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 1  9      0  46472 7201008  73424    0    0     0 658756 2339 2242  0 22 24 54
 3 10      0  44132 7204680  73292    0    0     0 660040 2335 2276  0 22 19 59
 5  8      0  48196 7201840  73736    0    0     0 652708 2403 1645  0 23 11 66
 2  9      0  45728 7205036  72628    0    0     0 659844 2296 1891  0 23 11 66
 0 11      0  47672 7202992  72564    0    0     0 672856 2327 1616  0 22  7 71

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