Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:11:24AM +0200, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:07:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list?

RE: raid or not raid

2007-05-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kalin mintchev Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: raid or not raid On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev

RE: raid or not raid

2007-05-27 Thread kalin mintchev
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kalin mintchev Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: raid or not raid On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev

RE: raid or not raid

2007-05-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: kalin mintchev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:04 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: raid or not raid -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-27 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:07:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread kalin mintchev
On Thu, 24 May 2007 19:11:27 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unless at device 31.2 on pci0 points to some RAID evidence - which i think it's false - than i read this as the ad6 disk sits there unused. am i right?! FWIW, you can use gstat (as root) to see if a certain

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the fstab or df? Very often ad4s1b will be the swap and ad4s1c the full slice. That is not an absolute rule, but it is very much recommended (at least for ad4s1c) to keep it equivalent to the full slice. Olivier

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread kalin mintchev
how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the fstab or df? Very often ad4s1b will be the swap and ad4s1c the full slice. That is not an absolute rule, but it is very much recommended (at least for ad4s1c) to keep it equivalent to the full slice. but there is

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 25 May 2007 15:41:28 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the fstab or df? because df shows mounted disks, and fstab what to mount. neither of them affect b (usually swap) or c (as per Olivier

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 25 May 2007 04:37:25 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: replying to your email down the thread...but using this content... L(q) ops/sr/s kBps ms/rw/s kBps ms/w %busy Name 0 6 66278.5 0 00.05.0| ad4 The actual

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread kalin mintchev
On Fri, 25 May 2007 04:37:25 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: replying to your email down the thread...but using this content... L(q) ops/sr/s kBps ms/rw/s kBps ms/w %busy Name 0 6 66278.5 0 00.05.0| ad4 The

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread kalin mintchev
so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of slices. under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of slices. under

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Jack Barnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread kalin mintchev
i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of slices. under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not mounted anywhere. the one i see both in df and the fstab is ad4 with

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread kalin mintchev
Also what type of RAID? If it's Hardware RAID _and_ it's using a 3ware card, doubt it. i don't see anything that ponts to that in the pciconf output.. you can install tw_cli from /usr/ports/sysutils. It's a nice little utility and will show you the status of your units/ports/drives and

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:30 AM 5/24/2007, kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of slices. under devices

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of slices. under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not mounted

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24/05/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:30 AM 5/24/2007, kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please elaborate. do you mean that the raided disks will have another id/name rather than 'ad'? Not knowing what hardware you have, I would still hazard that a RAID device will not

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 May 2007 06:30:06 am kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:07:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread doug
On Thu, 24 May 2007, kalin mintchev wrote: Also what type of RAID? If it's Hardware RAID _and_ it's using a 3ware card, doubt it. i don't see anything that ponts to that in the pciconf output.. you can install tw_cli from /usr/ports/sysutils. It's a nice little utility and will show you

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread kalin mintchev
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:11:27PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 24 May 2007 19:11:27 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unless at device 31.2 on pci0 points to some RAID evidence - which i think it's false - than i read this as the ad6 disk sits there unused. am i right?! FWIW, you can use gstat (as root) to see if a certain geom