Re: Pathological RAIDframe rebuild times

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:33:12AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> 
> On one server, the build took around 12 hours (which is similar to
> seen in the past). On the second, it estimated around 120. After a
> bit of playing around (nothing specific, just starting and stopping,
> changing from 4 to 3 disks, double-checking BIOS settings), a new
> build said 12 hours. But after about 10% it ramped up to 120hours
> again.

I have seen this intermittently for years.  I have never been able to
track it down.

Soemething is clearly waiting on something it should not wait for.

Thor