[ale] Linux Raid

Danny Cox danscox at mindspring.com
Wed Oct 2 15:53:43 EDT 2002


Robert,

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 15:42, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> The neat feature is the 'go ahead and use the raid once built, we'll
> sync slowly in the background'...  Does anyone know if there is a way to
> force a fast sync with maximum IO bandwidth?  I can't find any way of
> doing this.

	Sure.  See /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min and _max.  Do a "echo
10000 >/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min" as root, and it'll speed up
quite a bit.

	See the Software-RAID HOWTO for more info.

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny


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