Re: MD RAID1 performance very different from non-RAID partition

2007-09-18 Thread Jordan Russell
Luca Berra wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:58:11AM -0500, Jordan Russell wrote: >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Compare the read ahead settings. >> I'm not sure what you mean. There's a per-mount read ahead setting? >> > > per device > > compare > blockdev --getra /dev/sda2 > and > blockd

Re: Help: very slow software RAID 5.

2007-09-18 Thread Dean S. Messing
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Dean S. Messing wrote: : : > : > : > I'm not getting nearly the read speed I expected : > from a newly defined software RAID 5 array : > across three disk partitions (on the 3 drives, : > of course!). : > : > Would someone kindly point me straight? : > :

Re: Help: very slow software RAID 5.

2007-09-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Dean S. Messing wrote: I'm not getting nearly the read speed I expected from a newly defined software RAID 5 array across three disk partitions (on the 3 drives, of course!). Would someone kindly point me straight? After defining the RAID 5 I did `hdparm -t /dev/md0' a

Help: very slow software RAID 5.

2007-09-18 Thread Dean S. Messing
I'm not getting nearly the read speed I expected from a newly defined software RAID 5 array across three disk partitions (on the 3 drives, of course!). Would someone kindly point me straight? After defining the RAID 5 I did `hdparm -t /dev/md0' and got the abysmal read speed of ~65MB/sec. The i

Re: [linux-lvm] Q: Online resizing ext3 FS

2007-09-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I'm using RHEL4/U4 (kernel 2.6.9) on this system. >> >> That kernel seems to be a bit old. Better upgrade first. >> > > You don't upgrade when using the stable releases... that's the whole > idea, you don't have to w

Re: [linux-lvm] Q: Online resizing ext3 FS

2007-09-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris Osicki schrieb: Hi I apologize in advance for asking a question not really appropriate for this mailing list, but I couldn't find a better place with lots of people managing lots of disk space. The quest

Re: mke2fs stuck in D state while creating filesystem on md*

2007-09-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Wiesner Thomas wrote: Before running Linux software raid on a production system, I'm trying to get the hang of it and use 4 loopback devices on which I play with RAID5. I've: * mdadm - v2.6.3 - 20th August 2007 * mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.37 * Linux ha

RAID5 starts degraded after reboot

2007-09-18 Thread Tom Fojta
Hi I have created a 3 drive RAID5 array, but after each reboot it starts degraded with only 1 drive. It also changes the UUID of that drive. I have to manualy stop the array and force create it. I've seen similar problems in the archives but still have not found solution. Here are my details: My

Re: MD RAID1 performance very different from non-RAID partition

2007-09-18 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:58:11AM -0500, Jordan Russell wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jordan Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It's an ext3 partition, so I guess that doesn't apply? I tried remounting /dev/sda2 with the "barrier=0" option (which I assume disables barriers, looking at t