Re: Adding Latency To Disk Access

2006-02-11 Thread Paul M.
I am currently trying to build a RAID5 array across 12 disks. The problem is there is a bug in the linux firewire drivers that is causes problems when multiple disks are accessed randomly at the same time. As you can imagine the soft RAID5 drivers try to do exactly that - access all 12 disks at

Re: shared spare

2006-02-11 Thread Richard Scobie
Bill Davidsen wrote: One of the things I like about the IBM ServeRAID controller is spare drive shared between two RAID groups. First to fail gets it. For software RAID is this at all in the future? Hi Bill, Unless I am misunderstanding something, software RAID has this already. I have not

Re: Adding Latency To Disk Access

2006-02-11 Thread John Stoffel
Paul I am currently trying to build a RAID5 array across 12 Paul disks. The problem is there is a bug in the linux firewire Paul drivers that is causes problems when multiple disks are accessed Paul randomly at the same time. With that number of disks, and that transport, why aren't you