Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-07-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/12/2015 12:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's because the RAID abilities built into most motherboards are really shitty. Very little, if any, optimization going on, no real intelligence, and the whole thing just looks and feels like it's no more than 2 or more volumes shoved into one

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-07-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/07/2015 22:46, Daniel Frey wrote: On 07/12/2015 12:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's because the RAID abilities built into most motherboards are really shitty. Very little, if any, optimization going on, no real intelligence, and the whole thing just looks and feels like it's no more

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-07-12 Thread Alex Thorne
I'm afraid I won't be testing it any time soon -- I don't have any drives to pair at the moment. As for your comments about dmraid being 'fake', I'm a little confused. From what you say it sounds like this is the hardware RAID that comes with many motherboards. Why is hardware RAID undesirable

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-07-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/07/2015 20:51, Alex Thorne wrote: I'm afraid I won't be testing it any time soon -- I don't have any drives to pair at the moment. As for your comments about dmraid being 'fake', I'm a little confused. From what you say it sounds like this is the hardware RAID that comes with many

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 05 July 2015 18:01:37 Alex Thorne wrote: Unfortunately dmraid is not in any runlevel. I think it is lvm that's starting lvmetad despite use_lvmetad=0 being set in the configuration file. Unfortunately I think I'm just going to have to learn to live with the error message. I hope you

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-07-06 Thread Alex Thorne
I guess I did mean mdraid, but would you mind explaining the difference (I've never used raid so don't know much about this)? Is dmraid deprecated in favour of mdadm? Yes, I think most Gentoo installs I've done have had some small warnings/error messages somewhere which I've never quite managed

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 06 July 2015 10:19:36 Alex Thorne wrote: I guess I did mean mdraid, but would you mind explaining the difference (I've never used raid so don't know much about this)? Is dmraid deprecated in favour of mdadm? Dmraid is the fake RAID that's included on most motherboards these days;

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-07-05 Thread Alex Thorne
Unfortunately dmraid is not in any runlevel. I think it is lvm that's starting lvmetad despite use_lvmetad=0 being set in the configuration file. Unfortunately I think I'm just going to have to learn to live with the error message. Thanks, Alex On 25 June 2015 at 10:19, Peter Humphrey

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-06-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 12:13:06 Alex Thorne wrote: I used to get the following error in /var/log/rc.log /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory I am not sure why this was happening, but I read that one fix was to disable lvmetad entirely. And so I set