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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:47:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: dean gaudet <dean@...tic.org>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@...mx.eu.org>
cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, david@...g.hm,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: limits on raid
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote:
> When I've had an unclean shutdown on one of my systems (10x 50gb raid5) it's
> always slowed the system down when booting up. Quite significantly I must
> say. I wait until I can login and change the rebuild max speed to slow it
> down while I'm using it. But that is another thing.
i use an external write-intent bitmap on a raid1 to avoid this... you
could use internal bitmap but that slows down i/o too much for my tastes.
i also use an external xfs journal for the same reason. 2 disk raid1 for
root/journal/bitmap, N disk raid5 for bulk storage. no spindles in
common.
-dean
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