Re: First RAID Setup

2005-12-16 Thread Tobias Hofmann
On 16.12.2005 02:51, Max Waterman wrote: Tobias Hofmann wrote: delurk On 15.12.2005 21:46, Brad Campbell wrote: [...] /me wonders in the days of reliable RAID-6 why we use RAID-5 + spare? Just so I am clear on this : while RAID5 consumes a disk's worth of space for parity, resulting

Re: First RAID Setup

2005-12-16 Thread Tobias Hofmann
On 16.12.2005 02:53, Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: delurk On 15.12.2005 21:46, Brad Campbell wrote: Callahan, Tom wrote: It is always wise to build in a spare however, that being said about all raid levels. In your configuration, if a disk fails in

Re: Spare disk could not sleep / standby

2005-03-09 Thread Tobias Hofmann
On 08.03.2005 14:13, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Tobias Hofmann wrote: [...] I had found postings on the net claiming that doing so without unmounting the fs on the raid, this would lead to bad things happening - but your report seems to prove them wrong... I've been using

Re: Spare disk could not sleep / standby

2005-03-08 Thread Tobias Hofmann
On 08.03.2005 09:57, Molle Bestefich wrote: [...] I'm gonna CC the list anyway, hope it's okay :-). I hope so, too... ;) [...] No, but I can tell you what I did. I stuffed a bunch of cheap SATA disks and crappy controllers in an old system. (And replaced the power supply with one that has enough