[Beowulf] Surviving a double disk failure
Guy Coates
gmpc at sanger.ac.uk
Sun Apr 12 02:51:45 PDT 2009
Stuart Midgley wrote:
> Thanks to all the responses, it has been interesting reading. We have
> started using raid6 on newer servers and will slowely get rid of our old
> raid5 servers.
>
> I found the comments about scrubbing very interesting. What do people
> do with their file systems? We couldn't afford the reduced performance
> and time for scrubbing.
You can set limits on how much IO a raid scrub or rebuild is going to
use by setting:
/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max
/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min
The default for speed_limit_min is pretty small, so you probably won't
notice much in the way of performance degradation. It might take a while
to complete though if your filesystems are busy.
Cheers,
Guy
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