Re: Few questions

2007-12-08 Thread David Greaves
Guy Watkins wrote: man md man mdadm and http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Main_Page :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

/proc/mdstat docs (was Re: Few questions)

2007-12-08 Thread David Greaves
Michael Makuch wrote: So my questions are: ... - Is this a.o.k for a raid5 array? So I realised that /proc/mdstat isn't documented too well anywhere... http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Mdstat Comments welcome... David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid

Re: /proc/mdstat docs (was Re: Few questions)

2007-12-08 Thread Raz
many thanks . david. It is very useful. On 12/8/07, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Makuch wrote: So my questions are: ... - Is this a.o.k for a raid5 array? So I realised that /proc/mdstat isn't documented too well anywhere... http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Mdstat

Re: /proc/mdstat docs (was Re: Few questions)

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Makuch
David Greaves wrote: Michael Makuch wrote: So my questions are: ... - Is this a.o.k for a raid5 array? So I realised that /proc/mdstat isn't documented too well anywhere... http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Mdstat Comments welcome... David One thing, in the

Re: Few questions

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Makuch
Guy Watkins wrote: man md man mdadm I use RAID6. Happy with it so far, but haven't had a disk failure yet. RAID5 sucks because if you have 1 failed disk and 1 bad block on any other disk, you are hosed. Hope that helps. I can't believe I've been using a raid array for 2 years and didn't know

Re: Few questions

2007-12-07 Thread Corey Hickey
Michael Makuch wrote: I realize this is the developers list and though I am a developer I'm not a developer of linux raid, but I can find no other source of answers to these questions: Don't worry; it's a user list too. $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 :

RE: Few questions

2007-12-07 Thread Guy Watkins
man md man mdadm I use RAID6. Happy with it so far, but haven't had a disk failure yet. RAID5 sucks because if you have 1 failed disk and 1 bad block on any other disk, you are hosed. Hope that helps. } -Original Message- } From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- } [EMAIL