Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker? [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 12:58:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/mdstat ) Is there a way that will

[gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/mdstat ) Is there a way that will speed this up? The drives are new, but contain random data left

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
Most of the wait I would assume is due to the size of the volume and creating parity. If it was my array I'd probably just sit tight and wait it out. On 2/1/10, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 *

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/ mdstat ) Is there a way that will speed this up?

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 14:20:28 Stroller wrote: On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
It would be interesting to know whether hardware RAID would behave any differently or allow the sync to perform in the background. I have only 1.5TB in RAID5 across 4 x 500gb drives at present; IIRC the expansion from 3 x drives took some hours, but I can't recall the initial setup. LSI,