On January 12, 2023 1:56:36 AM EST, Simon Matter wrote:
>> On 01/11/2023 01:33 PM, H wrote:
>>> On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces
>of
equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM
>PVs
On January 12, 2023 2:43:26 AM EST, Michael Schumacher
wrote:
>
>> Follow-up question: Is my proposed strategy below correct:
>> - Make a copy of all existing directories and files on the current
>disk using clonezilla.
>> - Install the new M.2 SSDs.
>> - Partitioning the new SSDs for RAID1
On 01/12/2023 03:00 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> Hallo Simon,
>>
>>> Anyway, the splitting of large disks has additional advantages. Think of
>>> what happens in case of a failure (power loss, kernel crash...). With
>>> the
>>> disk as one large chunk, the whole disk has to be resynced on restart
Il 2023-01-12 09:00 Simon Matter ha scritto:
That's a huge improvement especially on very large disks.
Hi, not-ancient versions of Linux MD RAID cope with these issues via two
different means:
- a write bitmap to track dirty disk regions;
- an embedded bad list sector to remap such sectors
> Hallo Simon,
>
>> Anyway, the splitting of large disks has additional advantages. Think of
>> what happens in case of a failure (power loss, kernel crash...). With
>> the
>> disk as one large chunk, the whole disk has to be resynced on restart
>> while with smaller segments only those which are
> Follow-up question: Is my proposed strategy below correct:
> - Make a copy of all existing directories and files on the current disk using
> clonezilla.
> - Install the new M.2 SSDs.
> - Partitioning the new SSDs for RAID1 using an external tool.
> - Doing a minimal installation of C7 and
Hallo Simon,
> Anyway, the splitting of large disks has additional advantages. Think of
> what happens in case of a failure (power loss, kernel crash...). With the
> disk as one large chunk, the whole disk has to be resynced on restart
> while with smaller segments only those which are marked as
> On 01/11/2023 01:33 PM, H wrote:
>> On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of
>>> equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs
>>> to
>>> one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on
> On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of
>> equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs
>> to
>> one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on one disk, you wont
>> lose redundancy on
On 01/11/2023 01:33 PM, H wrote:
> On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of
>> equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs to
>> one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on one disk,
On 01/11/2023 08:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> Perhaps you have not dealt with Firefox? :)
>
> On my Fedora 35 notebook, it slowly gobbles memory and I have to quit it
> after some number of days and restart.
>
> Now I only have 16GB of memory, 16GB physical swap, and 8GB zram swap.
>
>
On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
> What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of
> equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs to
> one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on one disk, you wont
> lose redundancy on the
>
>
> On 1/11/23 02:09, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> I plan to upgrade an existing C7 computer which currently has one 256
>>> GB
>>> SSD to use mdadmin software RAID1 after adding two 4 TB M2. SSDs, the
>>> rest
>>> of the system remaining the same. The system also has one additional
>>> internal and
On 1/11/23 02:09, Simon Matter wrote:
I plan to upgrade an existing C7 computer which currently has one 256 GB
SSD to use mdadmin software RAID1 after adding two 4 TB M2. SSDs, the rest
of the system remaining the same. The system also has one additional
internal and one external harddisk but
> I plan to upgrade an existing C7 computer which currently has one 256 GB
> SSD to use mdadmin software RAID1 after adding two 4 TB M2. SSDs, the rest
> of the system remaining the same. The system also has one additional
> internal and one external harddisk but these should not be touched. The
>
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