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SubjectRe: limits on raid
david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
>
>> It would be possible to have a 'this is not initialised' flag on the
>> array, and if that is not set, always do a reconstruct-write rather
>> than a read-modify-write. But the first time you have an unclean
>> shutdown you are going to resync all the parity anyway (unless you
>> have a bitmap....) so you may as well resync at the start.
>>
>> And why is it such a big deal anyway? The initial resync doesn't stop
>> you from using the array. I guess if you wanted to put an array into
>> production instantly and couldn't afford any slowdown due to resync,
>> then you might want to skip the initial resync.... but is that really
>> likely?
>
> in my case it takes 2+ days to resync the array before I can do any
> performance testing with it. for some reason it's only doing the
> rebuild at ~5M/sec (even though I've increased the min and max rebuild
> speeds and a dd to the array seems to be ~44M/sec, even during the
> rebuild)
>
> I want to test several configurations, from a 45 disk raid6 to a 45
> disk raid0. at 2-3 days per test (or longer, depending on the tests)
> this becomes a very slow process.
>
I've been doing stuff like this, but I just build the array on a
partition per drive so the init is livable. For the stuff I'm doing a
total of 500-100GB is ample to do performance testing.
> also, when a rebuild is slow enough (and has enough of a performance
> impact) it's not uncommon to want to operate in degraded mode just
> long enought oget to a maintinance window and then recreate the array
> and reload from backup.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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