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Tux12Fun
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:14 pm    Post subject: [solved] Playing with mdadm Reply with quote

Hello,

I build the following setup, only for playing, but i haven't expected that this would be so slow.

Does anybody know how its so slow.

Setup:

DISK1 (USB - HDD)
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= f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7, f8, f9, f10 =
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DISK2 (USB - HDD)
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= f11, f12, f13, f14, f15, f16, f17, f18, f19, f20 =
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Every File (f1-f20) is bound to one loop device (loop1-20)

now i build my raid (only for space/none security) like this. (Files have different size so i use linear)
mdadm --build --auto=part --verbose /dev/md0 --level linear -c 2048 -n 20 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop11 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop12 /dev/loop3 /dev/loop13 ...

Now I expected to write with the throughput of at least one disk (26mb/s) but if i write with dd i get only 6mb/s. Writing to a loop device is working with about 23mb/s


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are you trying to do here?
There are multiple layers of filesystem munging translation here, that's one possible reason; also the possibility of fragmentation hurts this...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tux12Fun,

... and all this fun on USB, where there is no DMA for HDDs.

If you want to play with mdadm on USB, use real partitions and non journalling filesystems.
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