proactive-raid-disk-replacement

2006-09-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
Recently Dean Gaudet, in thread titled 'Feature Request/Suggestion - Drive Linking', mentioned his document, http://arctic.org/~dean/proactive-raid5-disk-replacement.txt I've read it, and have some umm.. concerns. Here's why: mdadm -Gb internal --bitmap-chunk=1024 /dev/md4 mdadm /dev/md4

Re: proactive-raid-disk-replacement

2006-09-08 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Michael Tokarev wrote: Recently Dean Gaudet, in thread titled 'Feature Request/Suggestion - Drive Linking', mentioned his document, http://arctic.org/~dean/proactive-raid5-disk-replacement.txt I've read it, and have some umm.. concerns. Here's why: mdadm -Gb

Re: Interesting RAID checking observations - I'm getting it too

2006-09-08 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Bill, On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:42:53 -0400 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Smith wrote: Interesting, but do you run other stuff at that time? Several distributions run various things in the middle of the night which really bog the machine. Doesn't look like it.

RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only 6*250GB space. How can I grow the md0 device to use

RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only 6*250GB space. How can I grow the md0 device to use 6*400GB? MfG, Lars Schimmer --

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only 6*250GB space. How can I grow the md0 device to use 6*400GB? mdadm --grow

Re: proactive-raid-disk-replacement

2006-09-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
dean gaudet wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Michael Tokarev wrote: Recently Dean Gaudet, in thread titled 'Feature Request/Suggestion - Drive Linking', mentioned his document, http://arctic.org/~dean/proactive-raid5-disk-replacement.txt I've read it, and have some umm.. concerns. Here's why:

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:26:31PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: [] mdadm --grow is your friend. Oh, damn, right. I was focussed on --grow to add a new HD to the RAID But isn´t there a switch to grow to max possible value? Do I always have to search for the

Messed up creating new array...

2006-09-08 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Folks, I messed up slightly when creating a new 6-disk raid6 array, and am wondering if there is a simple answer. The problem is that I didn't partition the drives, but simply used the whole drive. All drives are of the same type and using the Supermicro SAT2-MV8 controller. This is a problem

Please help me save my data

2006-09-08 Thread martin . kihlgren
Hello list. I have a spot of trouble with a RAID5 array of mine, and I thought maybe you could help me. This is the story so far: * I bought 10 external USB drives. This seemed like a good idea, they are cheap, they are hot-pluggable and they are fast enough. * I set them up in two RAID5

Please help me save my data

2006-09-08 Thread martin . kihlgren
Hello list. I have a spot of trouble with a RAID5 array of mine, and I thought maybe you could help me. This is the story so far: * I bought 10 external USB drives. This seemed like a good idea, they are cheap, they are hot-pluggable and they are fast enough. * I set them up in two RAID5

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Neil Luca , On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Luca Berra wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:26:31PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk

Re: Messed up creating new array...

2006-09-08 Thread David Rees
On 9/8/06, Ruth Ivimey-Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I messed up slightly when creating a new 6-disk raid6 array, and am wondering if there is a simple answer. The problem is that I didn't partition the drives, but simply used the whole drive. All drives are of the same type and using the

UUID's

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Scobie
If I have specified an array in mdadm.conf using UUID's: ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=3aaa0122:29827cfa:5331ad66:ca767371 and I replace a failed drive in the array, will the new drive be given the previous UUID, or do I need to upate the mdadm.conf entry? Regards, Richard - To unsubscribe from this

Re: UUID's

2006-09-08 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Richard Scobie wrote: If I have specified an array in mdadm.conf using UUID's: ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=3aaa0122:29827cfa:5331ad66:ca767371 and I replace a failed drive in the array, will the new drive be given the previous UUID, or do I need to upate the mdadm.conf

Re: UUID's

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Scobie
dean gaudet wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Richard Scobie wrote: If I have specified an array in mdadm.conf using UUID's: ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=3aaa0122:29827cfa:5331ad66:ca767371 and I replace a failed drive in the array, will the new drive be given the previous UUID, or do I need to upate the

Check/repair on composite RAID

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Scobie
If I have a RAID 10, comprising a RAID 0, /dev/md3 made up of RAID1, /dev/md1 and RAID1, /dev/md2 and I do an: echo repair /sys/block/md3/md/sync_action will this run simultaneous repairs on the the underlying RAID 1's, or should seperate repairs be done to md1 and 2? Thanks for any

2.6.18-rc5-mm1 - bd_claim_by_disk oops

2006-09-08 Thread John Stoffel
I got the following on 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 when trying to lvextend a test logical volume that I had just created. This came about because I have been trying to expand some LVs on my system, which are based on a VG ontop of an MD mirror pair. It's an SMP box too if that means anything.