Re: Going from 'old' (kernel v2.2.x) to 'new' (kernel v2.4.x) raidsystem

2001-02-27 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On February 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently running a standard v2.2.17 kernel w/ the 'accompanying' raid system (linear). Given this, you should be able to run mkraid with complete safety as is doesn't actually write anything to any

Data loss with RAID5

2001-02-27 Thread Yann Algayon
I try to set 3 disks in raid 5. But i have a problem, I lose data when i remove a disk. I have done the following steps : * I created partitions on the three disks : on sdb : sdb1 and sdb2 both primary and FD type on sdc : sdc1 and sdc2 on sdd : sdd1 and sdd2 all partitions

Re: [lvm-devel] Re: partitions for RAID volumes?

2001-02-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday February 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the LVM metadata is somewhat poorly layed out in this respect. The metadata is at the start of the device, and on occasion is not even sector aligned, AFAICS. Also, the PE structures, while large powers of 2 in size, are not

Re: [lvm-devel] Re: partitions for RAID volumes?

2001-02-27 Thread Andreas Dilger
Neil Brown writes: On Monday February 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the LVM metadata is somewhat poorly layed out in this respect. The metadata is at the start of the device, and on occasion is not even sector aligned, AFAICS. MD/RAID volumes are always a multiple of 64k. The