Re: skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-08 Thread Ming Zhang
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 22:14 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: > > >>I did a similar thing a while back. > >>I created the raid and waited for it to sync, I then make dd copies of the > >>raid superblocks. > >>When I blew it up I just dd the clean superblocks back again (saved a 12

Re: skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-08 Thread Brad Campbell
Ming Zhang wrote: I did a similar thing a while back. I created the raid and waited for it to sync, I then make dd copies of the raid superblocks. When I blew it up I just dd the clean superblocks back again (saved a 12 hour rebuild time) interesting to know about this. u just check the dmes

Re: skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-08 Thread Ming Zhang
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:47 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I am testing some HW performance with raid5 with 2.4.x kenrel. > > > > It is really troublesome every time I create a raid5, wait 4 hours for > > reconstruction, and then test some data and then recre

Re: skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-08 Thread Brad Campbell
Ming Zhang wrote: Hi folks I am testing some HW performance with raid5 with 2.4.x kenrel. It is really troublesome every time I create a raid5, wait 4 hours for reconstruction, and then test some data and then recreate another one and wait again. I wonder if there is any hack or option availabl

Re: skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-06 Thread Ming Zhang
Thanks, that is a workaround as well. :P I already solve this by using mkraid. Ming On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:45 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I am testing some HW performance with raid5 with 2.4.x kenrel. > > > > It is really troublesome every time I c

Re: skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Tokarev
Ming Zhang wrote: > Hi folks > > I am testing some HW performance with raid5 with 2.4.x kenrel. > > It is really troublesome every time I create a raid5, wait 4 hours for > reconstruction, and then test some data and then recreate another one > and wait again. I wonder if there is any hack or opt

Re: AW: skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-05 Thread Ming Zhang
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Re: AW: skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-05 Thread Ming Zhang
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skip raid5 reconstruction

2005-07-05 Thread Ming Zhang
Hi folks I am testing some HW performance with raid5 with 2.4.x kenrel. It is really troublesome every time I create a raid5, wait 4 hours for reconstruction, and then test some data and then recreate another one and wait again. I wonder if there is any hack or option available to create a raid5