Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-16 Thread Dennis Johansen
You create the partitions in the installer, setting the partition use to 'raid'. You then select configure raid, and setup all your raid devices. Then when you return to the partition tool you will see the new raid md devices, which you then set to 'use as LVM volume', then you go to

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:02:31AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:53:14AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: To my dismay, I tried (repeatedly) unsuccessfully to implement the scheme

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:45:37AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:02:31AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:53:14AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-11 Thread Francesco Pietra
To my dismay, I tried (repeatedly) unsuccessfully to implement the scheme below on old Tyan S2895 with two dual-opteron and two new Maxtor 250GB, before moving to the new machine. With the recent amd installer, I tried to set up (manually) the two partitions on both disks to set up raid1. First,

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:53:14AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: To my dismay, I tried (repeatedly) unsuccessfully to implement the scheme below on old Tyan S2895 with two dual-opteron and two new Maxtor 250GB, before moving to the new machine. With the recent amd installer, I tried to set up

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:02:31AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:53:14AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: To my dismay, I tried (repeatedly) unsuccessfully to implement the scheme below on old Tyan S2895 with two

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:59:50PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: I understand that the double recommendation is fine. Though, I am pressed by answering the referees about a submitted paper as they requested additional computation. That

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/03/2009 02:53 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: lupus in fabula as a follow up of my short intervention on raid1 with my machine to the thread Debian on big systems. System: supermicro H8QC8 m.board, two WD Raptor SATA 150GB, Debian amd64 lenny, raid1 While running an electronic molecular

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com writes: The important bit is: Disk failure on sda1, disabling device So one of your disks failed. The kernel marked it as such and continious on the other disk alone. This is invisible to the application (apart from the short hickup) and no data is

Fwd: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-03 Thread Francesco Pietra
: Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines To: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 03/03/2009 02:53 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: lupus in fabula as a follow up of my short intervention on raid1

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-03 Thread Francesco Pietra
== === -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:21 AM Subject: Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines To: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Ron

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:26:27PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com writes: [snip] That is a lot of raids. Have you ever thought about using LVM? The different raid1 will mess up each others assumption about the head positioning of the component

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-03 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:26:27PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com writes: [snip] That is a lot of raids. Have you ever thought about using LVM? The different raid1 will mess up

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:59:50PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: I understand that the double recommendation is fine. Though, I am pressed by answering the referees about a submitted paper as they requested additional computation. That was going on until the host suspended access to sda. As I