Re: First RAID Setup

2005-12-19 Thread Max Waterman
Neil Brown wrote: Converting a raid5 to a raid6 with 2 extra drives (thus having more space as well as more redundancy) Yeah! That's me :D is a possibility as the extra space can be effectively used to keep to old copy of a stripe safe while writing the new copy. This sort of conversion is

Re: RAID5 resync question BUGREPORT!

2005-12-19 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 1:57 AM Subject: Re: RAID5 resync question BUGREPORT! On Thursday November 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Now i trying the

Re: RAID0 performance question

2005-12-19 Thread Al Boldi
JaniD++ wrote: For me, the performance bottleneck is cleanly about RAID0 layer used exactly as concentrator to join the 4x2TB to 1x8TB. Did you try running RAID0 over nbd directly and found it to be faster? IIRC, stacking raid modules does need a considerable amount of tuning, and even then