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