Help, big error, dd first GB of a raid:-/

2008-01-30 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Due to a very bad idea/error, I zeroed my first GB of /dev/md0. Now fdisk doesn't find any disk on /dev/md0. Any idea on how to recover? MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - - TU Graz, Institut

Re: Help, big error, dd first GB of a raid:-/

2008-01-30 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Rabbitson wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! Due to a very bad idea/error, I zeroed my first GB of /dev/md0. Now fdisk doesn't find any disk on /dev/md0. Any idea on how to recover? It largely depends on what is /dev/md0, and what

Re: Slow Soft-RAID 5 performance

2007-07-19 Thread Lars Schimmer
after RAID5 is filled with data? E.G. I setup a 9 disk SOFT-RAID5 with XFS and 3125669888 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [9/9] [U]. Speed is not really fast, I assume it could be faster. Justin. MfG, Lars Schimmer

Problem with Software RAID5

2006-10-18 Thread Lars Schimmer
mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md0: Input/output error Any hints? tips? MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - - TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +43 316 873-5402

RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
*400GB? MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - - TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only 6*250GB space. How can I grow the md0 device to use 6*400GB? MfG, Lars Schimmer

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only 6

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: [] mdadm --grow is your friend. Oh, damn, right. I was focussed on --grow to add a new HD to the RAID But isn´t there a switch to grow to max possible value? Do I always have to search