addingdrive to raid 1

2007-03-25 Thread Robert Stanford
Hi All, Long time Linux software raid user, first real problem. I built md2 with 1 missing drive and am now trying to add a drive (hda4) The partition that is hda4 was previously part of another raid array md1 that no longer exists. I have zeroed the superblock in hda4, however when I try

Re: XFS sunit/swidth for raid10

2007-03-25 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Peter Rabbitson wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Peter Rabbitson wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Peter Rabbitson wrote: Hi, How does one determine the XFS sunit and swidth sizes for a software raid10 with 3

Re: Swap initialised as an md?

2007-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Tokarev wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: [] If you use RAID0 on an array it will be faster (usually) than just partitions, but any process with swapped pages will crash if you lose either drive. With RAID1 operation will be more reliable but no faster. If you use RAID10 the array will be