Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:14:28 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvin
Oga) said:

> hi benno

> I have a hardware raid controller running off a P2-200
> with 64Gb of disk...99% full... and it takes
> about 45 min to e2fsck it when it goes down dirty...
> and takes about 10 min to mount it if it's clean

> - think software raids would be worst ?

No, because for heavy read loads like fsck, the raid stuff, whether
software or hardware, really doesn't have any work to do.  It's the raw
disk array bandwidth and seek time which counts most.

--Stephen