[vox-tech] Raid 1 - Fresh Install - Drives seem slow

[Bill Broadley]

> I just installed Sarge on an old PPro 180Mhz, with / on a RAID1 device 
> and everything else on RAID1/VG/LVGs (which is very easy using the new 
> Debian installer).  I'm building this machine to be an offsite backup 
> machine.
> 
> It took 10hrs to sync my 100GiB partition, the first time, which seems a 
> bit slow.

Linux by default does not saturate the disk during rebuilds so that
users aren't overly impacted.

If you want to speed it up tweak the parameters under /proc/sys/dev/raid.

You should be able to get close to whatever the hardware is capable of,
at the cost of higher loads and more lag.

-- 
Bill Broadley
Computational Science and Engineering
UC Davis