Re: [gentoo-user] Raid web page

2021-10-01 Thread antlists
On 01/10/2021 22:21, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.10.20 um 10:40 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 06.10.20 um 15:08 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: >> Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> I know the model: ICP5165BR >> >> https://ask.adaptec.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17414/~/support-for-sata-and-sas-disk-drives-with-a-size-of-2tb-or-greater >> >> says

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.10.20 um 15:08 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > Stefan G. Weichinger: >> I know the model: ICP5165BR > > https://ask.adaptec.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17414/~/support-for-sata-and-sas-disk-drives-with-a-size-of-2tb-or-greater > > says it is supported up to 8TB drives using firmware v5.2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 06.10.20 um 11:52 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > > Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> Am 05.10.20 um 21:32 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > > ... > >> What do you think, is 2 TB maybe too big for the controller? > > > 0a:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID > > > > This

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread antlists
On 05/10/2020 17:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.10.20 um 17:19 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: So my issue seems to be: non-working arcconf doesn't let me "enable" that one drive. Some kind of progress. Searched for more and older releases of arcconf, found Version 1.2 that doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.10.20 um 11:52 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > Some guesses: > > https://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins#aacraid > says that it requires libstd++5 > > arcconf might fork and exec, one could try with strace and try to > see what happens > > one could, if the old suse dist. is

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.10.20 um 11:52 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 05.10.20 um 21:32 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > ... >> What do you think, is 2 TB maybe too big for the controller? > 0a:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID > > This doesn't really tells us which controller it

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 05.10.20 um 16:38 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: ... > But no luck with any version of arcconf so far. Unpacked several zips, > tried 2 releases, 32 and 64 bits .. all crash. > > > Just a poke in the dark, does ldd report all libs found, as in: > > $ ldd /bin/ls > >

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 05.10.20 um 21:32 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: ... > What do you think, is 2 TB maybe too big for the controller? >>> 0a:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID This doesn't really tells us which controller it is, try with lspci -s 0a:0e.0 -nn In the kernel source

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 21:32 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > What if you put it on the 53c1030 card, can you do that, at least to > verify the disk ? I am 600kms away from that server and the people I could send to the basement there aren't very competent in these things. I am afraid that won't work out

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: ... > Searched for more and older releases of arcconf, found Version 1.2 that > doesn't crash here. > > This lets me view the physical device(s), but the new disk is marked as > "Failed". ... What if you put it on the 53c1030 card, can you do that, at least to verify the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 17:19 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > So my issue seems to be: non-working arcconf doesn't let me "enable" > that one drive. Some kind of progress. Searched for more and older releases of arcconf, found Version 1.2 that doesn't crash here. This lets me view the physical

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 16:57 schrieb Rich Freeman: > If you're doing software RAID or just individual disks, then you're > probably going to go into the controller and basically configure that > disk as standalone, or as a 1-disk "RAID". That will make it appear > to the OS, and then you can do whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 16:38 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > And theese on the aac, since they have the same scsi host, and I guess > that scsi ch.0 is for the configured drives and ch.1 for the raw drives: >> [1:0:1:0]diskICP SAS2 V1.0 /dev/sda >> [1:0:2:0]diskICP

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:38 AM wrote: > > Stefan G. Weichinger: > > On an older server the customer replaced a SAS drive. > > > > I see it as /dev/sg11, but not yes as /dev/sdX, it is not visible in "lsblk" > > Perhaps theese links will help: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > On an older server the customer replaced a SAS drive. > > I see it as /dev/sg11, but not yes as /dev/sdX, it is not visible in "lsblk" ... Not that I think it will help you much, but there is sys-apps/sg3_utils: # lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskATA TOSHIBA MG03ACA3

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:36 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > That assumes that there is a boot loader. There wasn't one with the old > Slackware boot & root disks. > Linux no longer supports direct booting from the MBR. arch/x86/boot/header.S bugger_off_msg: .ascii "Use a boot loader.\r\n"

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread karl
Peter Humphrey: ... > In my case I > haven't needed an initramfs so far, and now I see I still don't need one - > why > add complication? Having set the kernel option to assemble raid devices at > boot time, now that /dev/md0 has been created I find it ready to go as soon > as > I boot up

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 02:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: AFAIR the initramfs code is built into the kernel, not as an option. The reason given for using a cpio archive is that it is simple and available in the kernel. The kernel itself has an initramfs built into it which is executed automatically, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:37:31 GMT Wol's lists wrote: > On 28/01/2019 16:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I must be missing something, in spite of following the wiki instructions. > > Can someone help an old duffer out? > > Gentoo wiki, or kernel raid wiki? Gentoo wiki. It's fascinating to

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:37:43 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > An initramfs typically loads kernel modules, assuming there are any > > that need to be loaded. > > And where is it going to load them from if said kernel doesn't support > initrds or loop back devices or the archive or file system

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 20:58:37 +, Wol's lists wrote: > On 29/01/2019 19:41, Grant Taylor wrote: > > The kernel /must/ have (at least) the minimum drivers (and dependencies) > > to be able to boot strap.  It doesn't matter if it's boot strapping an > > initramfs or otherwise. > > All of

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 29/01/2019 19:41, Grant Taylor wrote: The kernel /must/ have (at least) the minimum drivers (and dependencies) to be able to boot strap.  It doesn't matter if it's boot strapping an initramfs or otherwise. All of these issues about lack of a driver are avoided by having the driver

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:37 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 01:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Uh, an initramfs typically does not exec a second kernel. I guess it > > could, in which case that kernel would need its own initramfs to get > > around to mounting its root filesystem.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 01:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Uh, an initramfs typically does not exec a second kernel. I guess it could, in which case that kernel would need its own initramfs to get around to mounting its root filesystem. Presumably at some point you'd want to have your system stop kexecing

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 28/01/2019 16:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: I must be missing something, in spite of following the wiki instructions. Can someone help an old duffer out? Gentoo wiki, or kernel raid wiki? Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 29/01/2019 19:01, Rich Freeman wrote: It would surely be a bug if the kernel were capable of manipulating RAIDs, but not of initialising and mounting them. Linus would disagree with you there, and has said as much publicly. He does not consider initialization to be the responsibility of

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:15 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > You seem to be focusing on the second kernel that the initramfs execs. > Uh, an initramfs typically does not exec a second kernel. I guess it could, in which case that kernel would need its

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Obviously. Hence the reason I said that it shouldn't matter if the module is built in-kernel. I'm saying it does matter. I'm not sure why it seems like we're talking past each other here... You seem to be focusing on the second kernel that the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:59 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > It couldn't. Hence the reason I said, "obviously it needs whatever > > drivers it needs, but I don't see why it would care if they are built > > -in-kernel vs in-module." > > You are missing

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:52 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > However, as soon as you throw so much as a second hard drive in a system > > that becomes unreliable. > > Mounting the root based on UUID (or labels) is *WONDERFUL*. It makes > the system

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: It couldn't. Hence the reason I said, "obviously it needs whatever drivers it needs, but I don't see why it would care if they are built -in-kernel vs in-module." You are missing what I'm saying. Even the kernel the initramfs uses MUST have

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 29/01/2019 16:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, All. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it be sensible to start the raid volume by putting an mdadm

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: If all my boxes could function reliably without an initramfs I probably would do it that way. ;-) However, as soon as you throw so much as a second hard drive in a system that becomes unreliable. I disagree. I've been reliably booting and

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:41 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > That is news to me. Obviously it needs whatever drivers it needs, but > > I don't see why it would care if they are built in-kernel vs in-module. > > How is a kernel going to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Not sure why you would think this. It is just a cpio archive of a root filesystem that the kernel runs as a generic bootstrap. IMHO the simple fact that such is used when it is not needed is ugly part. This means that your bootstrap for

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:22 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I don't see the value in using a different configuration on a box simply > > because it happens to work on that particular box. Dracut is a more > > generic solution that allows me to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: I don't see the value in using a different configuration on a box simply because it happens to work on that particular box. Dracut is a more generic solution that allows me to keep hosts the same. And if all the boxes in the fleet can function

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:54 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 10:58 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Can't say I've tried it recently, but I'd be shocked if it changed much. > > The linux kernel guys generally consider this somewhat deprecated > > behavior, and prefer that users use an

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:39 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:58:38 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Can't say I've tried it recently, but I'd be shocked if it changed > > much. The linux kernel guys generally consider this somewhat > > deprecated behavior, and prefer that

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 10:58 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Can't say I've tried it recently, but I'd be shocked if it changed much. The linux kernel guys generally consider this somewhat deprecated behavior, and prefer that users use an initramfs for this sort of thing. It is exactly the sort of problem an

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Rich. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:58:38 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:48 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > > On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I'd rather not have to create an

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:48 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it > > > be sensible to start the raid volume by

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 09:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: However, there's another quirk which bit me: something in the Gentoo installation disk took it upon itself to renumber my /dev/md2 to /dev/md127. I raised bug #539162 for this, but it was decided not to fix it. (This was back in February 2015.)

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, All. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it > > be sensible to start the raid volume by putting an mdadm --assemble > > command into, say,

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it be sensible to start the raid volume by putting an mdadm --assemble command into, say, /etc/local.d/raid.start? The machine doesn't boot from /dev/md0. Drive by comment. I

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:08:27 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 09:20:46 GMT Mick wrote: > > Hello Mick, > > --->8 > > > Do you have CONFIG_MD_RAID1 (or whatever it should be these days) built in > > your kernel? > > Yes, I have, but something else was missing:

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 09:20:46 GMT Mick wrote: Hello Mick, --->8 > Do you have CONFIG_MD_RAID1 (or whatever it should be these days) built in > your kernel? Yes, I have, but something else was missing: CONFIG_DM_RAID=y. This is in the SCSI section, which I'd overlooked (I hadn't needed

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Mick
Hello Peter, On Monday, 28 January 2019 16:56:57 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > When I run "mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 > /dev/ sdb2", this is what I get: > > # mdadm --stop /dev/md0 > mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 > # mdadm: /dev/sda2 appears to contain an

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-24 Thread Jarry
On 24-Feb-14 7:27, Facundo Curti wrote: n= number of disks reads: raid1: n*2 raid0: n*2 writes: raid1: n raid0: n*2 But, in real life, the reads from raid 0 doesn't work at all, because if you use chunk size from 4k, and you need to read just 2kb (most binary files, txt files,

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-24 Thread Facundo Curti
Thank you all! :) I finally have all clear. I'm going to do raid 10. Any way, I'm going to do a benchmark before to install. Thank you!;) 2014-02-24 14:03 GMT-03:00 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com: On 24-Feb-14 7:27, Facundo Curti wrote: n= number of disks reads: raid1: n*2 raid0: n*2

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-23 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/02/2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi. I am again, with a similar question to previous. I want to install RAID on SSD's. Comparing THEORETICALLY, RAID0 (stripe) vs RAID1 (mirrior). The performance would be something like this: n= number of disks reads: raid1: n*2 raid0: n*2

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, February 22, 2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's a great chance to practice my english :)

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 22 February 2014, at 5:27 am, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm going to get a new PC with a disc SSD 120GB and another HDD of 1TB. But in a coming future, I want to add 2 or more disks SSD. Mi idea now, is: Disk HHD: /dev/sda /dev/sda1 26GB

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2014-02-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/09/2013 07:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, September 5, 2013 05:04, James wrote: Hello, What would folks recommend as a Gentoo installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 installation? My previous attempts all failed to trying to follow (integrate info from) a myriad-malaise of old docs. I

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 22/02/2014 11:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, February 22, 2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Facundo Curti
Thank you so much for the help! :) It was very useful. I just need wait my new PC, and try it *.* jeje. Bytes! ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Facundo Curti
Please let us know what the performance is like when using the setup you are thinking off. Of course. I will post these here :) 2014-02-22 16:13 GMT-03:00 Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com: Thank you so much for the help! :) It was very useful. I just need wait my new PC, and try it *.*

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's a great chance to

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/269586 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/269628 Also, check [3], since the solution on [2] was unnecessarily complex. Regards. [3]

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID help

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I haven't had to set up a software RAID for years and now. I want to set up two RAID 1 arrays on a new file server to serve SBM to MSWindows clients. The first RAID1 having two disks, where a multipartition OS

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID help

2013-10-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2013 20:28:46 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I haven't had to set up a software RAID for years and now. I want to set up two RAID 1 arrays on a new file server to serve SBM to MSWindows clients. The

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2013-09-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, September 5, 2013 05:04, James wrote: Hello, What would folks recommend as a Gentoo installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 installation? My previous attempts all failed to trying to follow (integrate info from) a myriad-malaise of old docs. I would start with the Raid+LVM Quick

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2013-09-05 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 05.09.2013 05:04, schrieb James: Do you want to use a software raid of hardware raid? File system that is best for a Raid 1 workstation? Well, of course only file systems being supported by the rescue system of your hosting provider. File system that is best for a Raid 1 (casual

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:36:38 +0200, Pau Peris wrote: As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the new 3.5 compiled kernel fails to boot complaining about no block devices found. After taking a look

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
Pau Peris sibok1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've just migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, thanks a lot for both answers. I've just checked my kernel config and CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC is not setted so gonna take a look at it all with set -x. Thanks :) 2012/10/26 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org Pau Peris sibok1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Pau Peris sibok1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've just migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Pau Peris
Thx a lot Paul, this morning i noticed there was some kind of issue on my old initrd which works fine for 2.6 kernels, so created a new initrd which works fine and let me to boot into GNU/Gentoo Linux with same 3.5 bzImage. Gonna check if the issue came from mdadm, thx :) 2012/10/26 Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 install

2011-07-30 Thread pk
On 2011-07-30 03:04, james wrote: Ok so my first issue is the installation media and a lack of tools for GPT (GUID Partition Table). snip the 4k block (GPT) issue? Maybe I missed it on the minimal CD? If you're after GPT-able partition software you can use (g)parted, available on the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, guides and documents to reference are all welcome. I have this link, which is down as the best example:

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, guides and documents to reference are all welcome. I have this link, which is down as the best example:

Re: [gentoo-user] raid autodetection uuid differences

2010-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 April 2010, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm getting: md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect md: If you don't use raid, use

Re: [gentoo-user] raid autodetection uuid differences

2010-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:00 PM, David Mehler dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm getting: SNIP I've booted with a live CD and checked the arrays they look

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB green drives. [] - Mark Hi Mark, What do you mean by green drives? I had been told - but never

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB green drives. [] -

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread KH
Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB green drives. [] - Mark Hi Mark, What do you mean by green drives? I had been told - but never searched for confirmation - that those energy saving drives change spinning and

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread KH
Am 20.03.2010 19:29, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] I'm thinking I'll keep it as simple as possibly and just spread out the Gentoo install over the multiple hard drives without using RAID, but maybe not. It would be nice to have everything on RAID but I don't know if I should byte that off for my

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Mark Knecht schrieb: Smiling broadly... :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe keeps me happy. :-) So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.03.2010 23:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root /boot shouldn't be there, either. Not sure about /bin which seems sensible. From an install point of view I'm wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread KH
Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, [...] 3) Wife's new desktop [...] I want high reliability [...] The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. [...] Thanks, Mark Hi Mark, For me it sounds like those points just don't fit together ;-) Regards kh

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, [...] 3) Wife's new desktop [...] I want high reliability [...] The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. [...] Thanks, Mark Hi Mark, For me it sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Am 19.03.2010 23:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...]    The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root /boot shouldn't be there, either. Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker? [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 12:58:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/mdstat ) Is there a way that will

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
Most of the wait I would assume is due to the size of the volume and creating parity. If it was my array I'd probably just sit tight and wait it out. On 2/1/10, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 *

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/ mdstat ) Is there a way that will speed this up?

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 14:20:28 Stroller wrote: On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
It would be interesting to know whether hardware RAID would behave any differently or allow the sync to perform in the background. I have only 1.5TB in RAID5 across 4 x 500gb drives at present; IIRC the expansion from 3 x drives took some hours, but I can't recall the initial setup. LSI,

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID controller

2009-02-15 Thread Alex
Mick wrote: Hi, Hi All, I am thinking of installing Gentoo on a Dell box with this RAID controller: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/PERC5/en/UG/HTML/chapter1.htm Has anyone got experience with this hardware? What will I need to include in the kernel? Will I need any

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID controller

2009-02-15 Thread Mick
On Sunday 15 February 2009, Alex wrote: Mick wrote: Hi, Hi All, I am thinking of installing Gentoo on a Dell box with this RAID controller: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/PERC5/en/UG/HTML/chapt er1.htm Has anyone got experience with this hardware? What

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: 1 a: be commanded or requested to you must stop b: be urged to : ought by all means to you must read that book 2: be compelled by physical necessity to one must eat to live : be required by immediate or future need or purpose to we must hurry to catch the bus 3 a:

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 19 December 2008 20:53:47 Paul Hartman wrote: Yes, in English must can also mean that you infer or presume something. s/presume/assume/ (Not the same meaning, in spite of popular misuse.) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Shaochun Wang
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:45:58PM +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Kernel w/o CONFIG_LBD? thanks a lot! Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. -- Shaochun Wang scw...@ios.ac.cn Jabber: fung...@jabber.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? Bye... Dirk the option is not available with 64bits - maybe not needed.

must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 19:24:12 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? the option

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 19:24:12 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Your kernel must not be

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 21:53:47 schrieb Paul Hartman: Yes, in English must can also mean that you infer or presume something. Ah, yes. I remember :-) So, instead of your kernel must not be 64bits, maybe it would have been clearer to say I suspect you are not using a 64-bit kernel; if

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 21:53:47 schrieb Paul Hartman: Yes, in English must can also mean that you infer or presume something. Ah, yes. I remember :-) So, instead of your kernel must not be 64bits, maybe

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:13:11 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: So, instead of your kernel must not be 64bits, maybe it would have been clearer to say I suspect you are not using a 64-bit kernel; if you were, it would not have this problem. :) So can your kernel must not... be understood as

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