Tory M Blue wrote: > Imaging is still taking forever. the last couple of folks I've talked > to said their images attempt to sync after the boot, not during the > rsync (image creation process). > > I've modified the speed_limit files to have 1000 or so for min and max > (took forever), I then changed it to 5000 and 100000 and it's still > taking forever, these images are taking like 3 hours each on 120gb > drives. I really wish that it would not attempt to sync during the > image and simply do it after the server comes up the first time > (really, anyway this can happen? Or force the raid group stopped until > a reboot and start it again?!) <shrugs>
Maybe you could try to set both speed_limit_max and speed_limit_min to 0, to totally disable the disks synchronization. Theoretically in this case md_do_sync() should simply sleep and quit. > > But I have had some success, got the system up, with the MD devices > (no /etc/raidtab file) but things appeared to be running on the > software raid and thus md devices. I did however have an empty /var > volume which was "strange" (I'm imaging again after a few more tweaks > to see what's what (but this 3-4 hour image timing is killin me!).. /etc/raidtab is deprecated in recent systems, everything's is done by mdadm(8). Regarding the empty /var are you sure that you didn't mount another fs over it? Have you checked if the /var is not empty in your image? Just some ideas... > > > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min > > what I'm waiting for now, it's laying down the image (rsync and I get > these messages every X (once a md device finishes sync'n I guess) > (note i have tried 1000/1000 on speed and it took the same amount of > time as this appears to be taking). Try to reduce the min threshold further. Even 0 or close to 0. -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
