Am Mi, den 06.04.2005 schrieb Mark um 19:42: > I had them running over night, more than 12 hours, but it's still running. That sounds much too much time. Although, Brian made a good argument. 2 IDE hard drives on 1 controller have a very sub-optimal performance as always only 1 drive can send data over the wire (master / slave configuration). If any possible you should avoid that setup. > But the point is: there is nothing on there, it's a fresh install. There should not be a sync > in the first place, especially not > right after formatting them... Isn't strange? Not strange, but normal. The sync of the RAID array drives after the initial install has to happen. > MARK I recently installed a new server with a software RAID1 of ~200 GB (2 fast SATA drives) and the initial sync took about 60 minutes with sync rates between 60 MB/sec and 48 MB/sec. I did let it run and made a pause to not interfere it with other install and configuration tasks. On console I observed it with: watch -n 60 cat /proc/mdstat Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp Serendipity 20:19:38 up 7 days, 17:46, load average: 0.71, 0.65, 0.57
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