Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-11 Thread Benjamin Davenport
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 When mdadm creates a raid5 array, it creates it in degraded mode. Then it kicks in the last device and runs the rebuild code, which reads from the other n-1 disks and writes to the nth disk as appropriate to satisfy parity requirements. This allows

Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-10 Thread Robin Hill
On Thu May 10, 2007 at 05:33:17PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 May 2007, Liang Yang wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I created a MD-RAID5 array using 8 Maxtor SAS Disk Drives (chunk size is > >256k). I have measured the data transfer speed for single SAS disk drive > >(physical drive, n

Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
on in each disk platter? Thanks, Liang - Original Message - From: "Justin Piszcz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Liang Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initiali

Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-10 Thread Liang Yang
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized. On Thu, 10 May 2007, Liang Yang wrote: Hi, I created a MD-RAID5 array using 8 Maxtor SAS Disk Drives (chunk size is 256k). I have measured the da

Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Liang Yang wrote: Hi, I created a MD-RAID5 array using 8 Maxtor SAS Disk Drives (chunk size is 256k). I have measured the data transfer speed for single SAS disk drive (physical drive, not filesystem on it), it is roughly about 80~90MB/s. However, I notice MD also rep

Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-10 Thread Liang Yang
Hi, I created a MD-RAID5 array using 8 Maxtor SAS Disk Drives (chunk size is 256k). I have measured the data transfer speed for single SAS disk drive (physical drive, not filesystem on it), it is roughly about 80~90MB/s. However, I notice MD also reports the speed for the RAID5 array when it