Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-04 Thread Evgeny Bushkov
On 04.05.2011 01:49, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: Hi. How can I find out which is the parity disk in a RAID-4 soft array? I couldn't find that in the mdadm manual. I know that RAID-4 features a dedicated parity disk that is usually the bottleneck of the

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-04 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:07:58 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 01:49, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: Hi. How can I find out which is the parity disk in a RAID-4 soft array? I couldn't find that in the mdadm manual. I know that RAID-4 features a

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-04 Thread Evgeny Bushkov
On 04.05.2011 11:54, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:07:58 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 01:49, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: Hi. How can I find out which is the parity disk in a RAID-4 soft array? I couldn't find that in the

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-04 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 04 May 2011 13:08:34 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 11:54, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:07:58 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 01:49, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: Hi. How can I find out which is the parity

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-04 Thread Evgeny Bushkov
On 04.05.2011 13:38, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2011 13:08:34 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 11:54, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:07:58 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 01:49, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: Hi.

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.05.2011 11:08, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: On 04.05.2011 11:54, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:07:58 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 01:49, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: Hi. How can I find out which is the parity disk in a

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.05.2011 14:39, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 04.05.2011 11:08, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: On 04.05.2011 11:54, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:07:58 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 01:49, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: Hi. How can

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-04 Thread Evgeny Bushkov
On 04.05.2011 16:45, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.05.2011 14:39, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 04.05.2011 11:08, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: On 04.05.2011 11:54, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:07:58 Evgeny Bushkov wrote: On 04.05.2011 01:49, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.05.2011

[gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-03 Thread Evgeny Bushkov
Hi. How can I find out which is the parity disk in a RAID-4 soft array? I couldn't find that in the mdadm manual. I know that RAID-4 features a dedicated parity disk that is usually the bottleneck of the array, so that disk must be as fast as possible. It seems useful to employ a few slow disks

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm and raid4

2011-05-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 03.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Evgeny Bushkov: Hi. How can I find out which is the parity disk in a RAID-4 soft array? I couldn't find that in the mdadm manual. I know that RAID-4 features a dedicated parity disk that is usually the bottleneck of the array, so that disk must be as fast as