uHOWTO: Speed up RAID resync

December 15th, 2008

So you’re tired of watching the grass grow while your Linux RAID2 array rebuilds itself. Let’s take care of it:

$ echo 10000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min

This should give you a 10x speedup over the 1000kB/sec default — subject to the limitations of your actual bus bandwidth, of course.

One Response to uHOWTO: Speed up RAID resync

  1. Most useless tip in the world, you are stupid if you actually believe this will speed up the resync