Re: I/O question

[Chris Bannister <cbannister%slingshot.co.nz@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:49:52AM +0100, Ian Clark wrote:
> On 28 July 2015 at 23:52, William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >
> [anip]
> >
> > The RAID in question has 4 active drives, 1 parity drive & 1 spare, created
> > from identical ~900 GiB partitions on each of 6 7200 RPM 1 TB SATA3 HDD's.
> 
> What are your partition values (for the underlying drives), it sounds
> like these aren't aligned correctly.
> 
> (I have a 3x2TB SATA HDs in raid5 and your above command runs in 3 seconds.

grrr, there is no 'above command' it's been snipped. :(

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