Re: Software RAID 6 initial sync very slow

[Richard Scobie <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thomas62186218@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Thank you Bill and Richard for your responses.
>
> In sync_speed_max, I had already set it to 250000 (250MB/sec). For 
> sync_speed_min, I have 249900 set. My rational behind doing this was to 
> "force" it to go as fast as it can. Any problem with this?

You cannot force it to go faster, as for a RAID6 resync, the limiting 
speed is going to be the maximum write speed of one drive and in 
practice, I found that it self limited to around 60MB/s.

Regards,

Richard
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