<br>yeah. new setup.<br><br>old rig blew up and need to deploy new rig is "YESTERDAY DAMNIT!". Thus my impatience.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com" target="_blank">JLightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m assuming this is initial setup?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For me since it is new I would WANT it to check the disks on the initial build. It would suck to have it say “hey these are all ok because they’re new” then
find out 2 of them weren’t quite so OK 2 days after I had everything loaded.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If it were simply building a replacement disk in your RAID you would be able to continue work while it was doing that.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:55 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [ale] raid 5 drive sync = heat death of universe time frame<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">It would be such an improvement with RAID hardware to be able to tell it "Hey! These are BRAND NEW DRIVES so all you need is a fast sync!".<br>
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But NO!!!! The system must confirm that all bits are in fact nulls while it lays down format markers.<br>
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<sigh>really needed this system running 20 minutes ago. With x6 750GB drives it'll be done syncing about 2 am.<br clear="all">
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