Re: raidframe performance question

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

> Yeah, it works much better on the raw device.  After 10 minutes, the rate has 
> remained constant at 100MBytes/sec.  And I can even run a second dd on the 
> other prospective raid member and they _both_ run at 100MByte/sec.
>
> At this rate it will take about 1.5 hours to zero the entirety of both 
> drives, then I can start reassembling the raidset.

After having zeroed out the entire disks, initializing parity now runs 
much faster, and anticipating completion in less than two hours.  Then I 
can see what the performance looks like with a real load.


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