slightly OT (FC2): RAID 1 rebuild time

Michael Mansour micoots at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 17 12:31:47 UTC 2004


Hi,

 --- Angela Kahealani <angela at kahealani.com> wrote: 
> On Sunday 2004-08-15 11:25, Richard Welty wrote:
> > just how long should such a rebuild take? 
> 
> on RedHat9 / FC1 a rebuild of a 60GB mirror
> takes about 30 hours, and the syslog indicates that
> it runs with a
> (possibly configurable) cap on the bandwidth it
> takes to do so...
> but then I'm running PIO not DMA :-( on SATA drives
> on A7N8X2.0Dlx.

I actually just performed this on a software RAID 1
with 2 80Gb drives (the mirror that was synced was
60Gb). I kicked it off at night, woke up in the
morning and it was done. For me, it was less than 6
hours.

Michael.


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