Re: RAID5 how chage chunck size from 64 to 128, 256 ? is it possible ?

2008-02-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Janek Kozicki wrote: Justin Piszcz said: (by the date of Sat, 9 Feb 2008 04:14:51 -0500 (EST)) When you reate the array its --chunk or -c -- I found 256 KiB to 1024 KiB to be optimal. Hello Justin, what is your typical bonnie++ invocation, to test your configuratio

Re: howto and faq

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > I am trying to get some order to linux raid info. Help appreciated :) > The list description at > http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid > does list af FAQ, http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/ Yes, that should be amended. Drop them a line about the FAQ too > So our

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jan 29 2008 18:08, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>> 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 location and data structure. Would it be good to >>> introduce the

Re: when is a disk "non-fresh"?

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Dexter Filmore wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:22:36 Neil Brown wrote: >> On Thursday February 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 03:02:00 Neil Brown wrote: On Monday February 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seems the other topic wasn't quite clear... not

Re: howto and faq

2008-02-10 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:05:13AM +, David Greaves wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > > The list description at > > http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid > > does list af FAQ, http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/ > Yes, that should be amended. Drop them a line about the FAQ too I wil

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 10 2008 10:34, David Greaves wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jan 29 2008 18:08, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> 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 location and dat

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Feb 10 2008 10:34, David Greaves wrote: >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> On Jan 29 2008 18:08, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> > IIRC there was a discussion a while back on renaming mdadm options > (google "Time to deprecate old RAID formats?") and the superblocks > to e

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 10 2008 12:27, David Greaves wrote: >> >> I do not see anything wrong by specifying the SB location as a metadata >> version. Why should not location be an element of the raid type? >> It's fine the way it is IMHO. (Just the default is not :) > >There was quite a discussion about it. > >Fo

Re: howto and faq

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > I would then like that to be reflected in the main page. > I would rather that this be called "Howto and FAQ - Linux raid" > than "Main Page - Linux Raid". Is that possible? Just like C has a main() wiki's have a Main Page :) I guess it could be changed but I think it

Re: howto and faq

2008-02-10 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:21:08PM +, David Greaves wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > I would then like that to be reflected in the main page. > > I would rather that this be called "Howto and FAQ - Linux raid" > > than "Main Page - Linux Raid". Is that possible? > > Just like C has a mai

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Feb 10 2008 12:27, David Greaves wrote: I do not see anything wrong by specifying the SB location as a metadata version. Why should not location be an element of the raid type? It's fine the way it is IMHO. (Just the default is not :) There was quite a discuss