Re: Any inexpensive hardware recommendations for PCI interface cards?

2008-02-08 Thread Tim Southerwood
Hi Steve, Steve Fairbairn wrote: snip Is anyone using an array with disks on PCI interface cards? Almost, I have a Sil3132 PCI-E card (2 port SATA-300) mixed with 6 on board ports (on Asus M2N-E mobo). No problems there, I quite pleased with it. Is there an issue with mixing motherboard

Re: Loop devices to RAID? (was Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information?)

2008-01-30 Thread Tim Southerwood
Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: My mind boggles. I know how to mount an ISO as a loop device onto the file system, but if you'd be so kind, can you give a super-brief description on how to get a loop device to look like an actual partition that can be made into a RAID array? I can see this

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2008-01-28 Thread Tim Southerwood
- please pardon my ignorance, I'm not familiar enough with the code. Many thanks, Tim Tim Southerwood wrote: Carlos Carvalho wrote: Tim Southerwood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 23 January 2008 13:37: Sorry if this breaks threaded mail readers, I only just subscribed to the list so don;t have

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-01-28 Thread Tim Southerwood
David Greaves wrote: Peter Rabbitson wrote: David Greaves wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: This makes 1.0 the default sb type for new arrays. IIRC there was a discussion a while back on renaming mdadm options (google Time to deprecate old RAID formats?) and the superblocks to emphasise the

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2008-01-24 Thread Tim Southerwood
Carlos Carvalho wrote: Tim Southerwood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 23 January 2008 13:37: Sorry if this breaks threaded mail readers, I only just subscribed to the list so don;t have the original post to reply to. I believe I'm having the same problem. Regarding XFS on a raid5 md

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2008-01-23 Thread Tim Southerwood
Sorry if this breaks threaded mail readers, I only just subscribed to the list so don;t have the original post to reply to. I believe I'm having the same problem. Regarding XFS on a raid5 md array: Kernels 2.6.22-14 (Ubuntu Gutsy generic and server builds) *and* 2.6.24-rc8 (pure build from