[CentOS] mdadm size issues

On 09/24/2009 07:25 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
> Nathan Norton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to create a 10 drive raid6 array. OS is Centos 5.3 (64 Bit)
>>
>
> thats way too big of a single raid stripe set.    rebuilding that when a
> drive fails will take days, maybe even weeks.

timely blog post!

http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/24/mdraid-and-the-200000k-speed-limit