On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:22 AM, John Cox <jc-open...@uphall.net> wrote: > Hi > > I'm running OpenBSD 5.4 (dmesg below) with softraid in mirror mode. > One of the drives failed so I replaced it - the first time that RAID > has actually saved my data as opposed to simply making my life harder! > Thank you softraid. > > They are 3T drives and it looks like the rebuild is going to take ~5 > days to do. Is this expected? Is there any config parameter that I > should have set up to improve performance? 5 days = ~7MBytes / sec > and I know the drives can run a lot faster than that. > > Can I reboot the system during the rebuild or if I do will it start at > the beginning again? I could try it but I'm now about 3 days in and > don't wish to waste it.
As I've seen in my testing you _can_ reboot/poweroff the machine and you won't lose rebuild progress. > Many thanks
