[linux-lvm] Raid5 sync problem

[Austin Gonyou]

Well, as noted, he's got one drive Not in the raid5 right now so his R5 is
running in a degraded state, versus optimal. This will case some pretty
sever slowdows with software level raid5, vs hardware dedicated to the
job.

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Austin Gonyou
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> If you have a single huge RAID 5 volume which is always in use while the
> system is running, then you will always get the resync slowdown.  I'm not
> sure why this would cause your whole system to get so slow, unless it is
> something like you are swapping to RAID5, and this kills performance.