Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
Francois Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'day Francois. Well, I think everything is in the subject... I am looking at this solution for a 6*250GB raid5 data server, evolving in a 12*250 rai5 in the months to come... Performance is absolutely not a big issue for me, but I would not

Re: where is the spare drive? :-)

2006-01-05 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:16 AM Subject: Re: where is the spare drive? :-) On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 00:26:58 +0100, JaniD++ wrote Hello, list, I found something

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread berk walker
Daniel Pittman wrote: Francois Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'day Francois. Well, I think everything is in the subject... I am looking at this solution for a 6*250GB raid5 data server, evolving in a 12*250 rai5 in the months to come... Performance is absolutely not a big issue for me,

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Francois Barre wrote: Well, anyway, thanks for the advice. Guess I'll have to stay on ext3 if I don't want to have nightmares... And you can always mount it as ext2 if you think the journal is corrupt. Have you considered Raid-6 rather than R5? The biggest worry I have is

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread Francois Barre
2006/1/5, berk walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Ext3 does have a fine record. Might I also suggest an added expense of 18 1/2% and do RAID6 for better protection against data loss? b- Well, I guess so. I just hope I'll be given enough money for it, since it increases the cost per GB.

Re: Raid 5 array problem: 2 disks became spare in stead of member.

2006-01-05 Thread aziro.linux.adm
Tom De Clercq wrote: Hi all, First of all the best wishes for 2006. I am searching for a solution for my raid since last Thursday. What just happened I didn't know for sure, only thing I could see was that my server rebooted multiple times and my raid-5 array went offline. Os debian

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread berk walker
Francois Barre wrote: 2006/1/5, berk walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Ext3 does have a fine record. Might I also suggest an added expense of 18 1/2% and do RAID6 for better protection against data loss? b- Well, I guess so. I just hope I'll be given enough money for it, since

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:35:12PM +0100, Francois Barre wrote: By the way, not really a raid-oriented question, but what is the exact robustness of ext3 resizing ? I mean : what happens if the box crashes while resizing an ext3 ? Ext3 online resizing is undergoing some changes, so this

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread John Stoffel
Francois Well, I think everything is in the subject... I am looking Francois at this solution for a 6*250GB raid5 data server, evolving Francois in a 12*250 rai5 in the months to come... Performance is Francois absolutely not a big issue for me, but I would not Francois appreciate any data loss.

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread Francois Barre
2006/1/5, John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So what are you doing for backups, and can you allow the downtime needed to restore all your data if there is a problem? Remember, it's not the cost of doing backups which drives things, it's the cost of the time to *restore* the data which drives

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread Francois Barre
Another feature of LVM is moving physical devices (PV). This makes it easier to grow your enormous fs because it allows you to remove disks. Thanks for the tip, didn't think of it this way... [...] I haven't ever done this, just read about it. Also, maybe when md allows growing raid5/6 this

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread John Stoffel
Francois == Francois Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francois 2006/1/5, John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So what are you doing for backups, and can you allow the downtime needed to restore all your data if there is a problem? Remember, it's not the cost of doing backups which drives things,

Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2006-01-05 Thread David M. Strang
On Jan 5, 2006, Daniel Pittman wrote: Perhaps you would be better served by starting with a fully functional initramfs (or initrd) implementation that is in active use, then extending (or adapting) it to do what you wanted? Ubuntu Linux and Debian unstable have the 'initramfs-tools' package

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
Francois Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2006/1/5, Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Francois Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'day Francois. Well, I think everything is in the subject... I am looking at this solution for a 6*250GB raid5 data server, evolving in a 12*250 rai5 in the