RAID5 scrub 1 or 2 disks at a time instead to speed up
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- Subject: RAID5 scrub 1 or 2 disks at a time instead to speed up
- From: DanglingPointer <danglingpointerexception@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 20:23:35 +1000
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Hi All,
I continually get frustrated each time I have a scrub a btrfs RAID5
array due to the slow rate.
I was wondering if anyone has tried or seriously considered scrubbing 1
or 2 disks at a time, instead of all disks engaged at the same time
(perhaps a division check on number of disks before start) to see if it
is indeed faster?
Zygo Blaxell mentioned the above idea on Feb 6 this year. Just
wondering if there's been any serious thought put into the merits of
that idea?
The array I'm running the scrub on now has 7 disks (5x 2TB and 2x 6TB).
If it is a question of diminishing returns on speed as the number of
disks increases; perhaps we say up to 8 disks then do 1 or 2 at a time
sequentially, then over 8 just do default like right now?
If it is indeed faster then it would make the uptake of btrfs RAID56 a
lot more friendlier and decrease the amount of flak it gets in the wild.
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