On 10/16/10 12:29 PM, Marty Scholes wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Marty Scholes
<martyscho...@yahoo.com>  wrote:
My home server's main storage is a 22 (19 + 3) disk
RAIDZ3 pool backed up hourly to a 14 (11+3) RAIDZ3
backup pool.

How long does it take to resilver a disk in that
pool?  And how long
does it take to run a scrub?

When I initially setup a 24-disk raidz2 vdev, it died
trying to
resilver a single 500 GB SATA disk.  I/O under 1
MBps, all 24 drives
thrashing like crazy, could barely even login to the
system and type
onscreen.  It was a nightmare.

That, and normal (no scrub, no resilver) disk I/O was
abysmal.

Since then, I've avoided any vdev with more than 8
drives in it.
MY situation is kind of unique.  I picked up 120 15K 73GB FC disks early this 
year for $2 per.  As such, spindle count is a non-issue.  As a home server, it 
has very little need for write iops and I have 8 disks for L2ARC on the main 
pool.

I'd hate to be paying your power bill!

Main pool is at 40% capacity and backup pool is at 65% capacity.  Both take 
about 70 minutes to scrub.  The last time I tested a resilver it took about 3 
hours.

So a tiny fast drive takes three hours, consider how long a 30x bigger, much slower drive will take.

--
Ian.

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