Re: switching root fs '/' to boot from RAID1 with grub

2007-11-02 Thread berk walker
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Doug Ledford wrote: device /dev/sda (hd0) root (hd0,0) install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 p /boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst device /dev/hdc (hd0) root (hd0,0) install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1

Re: mdadm file system type check

2007-03-16 Thread berk walker
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: To whom it may concern, It seems mdadm does not check, warn, abort, or etc if a partition has an incorrect file system type. This has come up for me on a few occasions while building servers with software raid. On one occasion I had a machine fully up and

Re: detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-07 Thread berk walker
Michael Stumpf wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Michael Stumpf wrote: This is the drive I think is most suspect. What isn't obvious, because it isn't listed in the self test log, is between #1 and #2 there was an aborted, hung test. The #4 short test that was aborted was also a hung test

Re: Linux Software RAID a bit of a weakness?

2007-02-26 Thread berk walker
David Rees wrote: On 2/25/07, Richard Scobie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Simpson wrote: They therefore do not have the check option in the kernel. Is there anything else I can do? Would forcing a resync achieve the same result (or is that down right dangerous as the array is not

Re: raid5 software vs hardware: parity calculations?

2007-01-15 Thread berk walker
dean gaudet wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Robin Bowes wrote: I'm running RAID6 instead of RAID5+1 - I've had a couple of instances where a drive has failed in a RAID5+1 array and a second has failed during the rebuild after the hot-spare had kicked in. if the failures were read errors

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-14 Thread berk walker
Nikolai Joukov wrote: http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/joukov-phdthesis/thesis.pdf Figures 9.7 and 9.8 also show profiles of the Linux RAID5 and RAIF5 operation under the same Postmark workload. Nikolai. - Nikolai Joukov, Ph.D. Filesystems and Storage Laboratory Stony

Re: 2 Hard Drives RAID

2006-09-09 Thread berk walker
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Sandra L. McGrew wrote: I have two hard drives installed in this DELL GX110 Optiplex computer. I believe that they are configured in RAID5, but am not certain. Is there a graphical method of determining how many drives are being used and how they

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-02-17 Thread berk walker
Gordon Henderson wrote: I'm building a little test server and I wanted ~500GB of storage with 2-drive redundancy, so the best price vs. num. drives vs. the need for 2 drive redundancy came to 4 x 250GB drives. (And I have a mobo with 5 SATA ports, and taking into account case power

Re: Problems with multiple Promise SATA150 TX4 cards

2006-01-27 Thread berk walker
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, Thank you all for all of your work on this topic. 1) I apologize for my email bouncing. I have no real choice in dsl service. Perhaps I will consider cable to prevent my mail bouncing! :) 2) I am able to hang 10 drives on 3 of the Promise SATA150 TX4 cards. So far

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread berk walker
Daniel Pittman wrote: Francois Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'day Francois. Well, I think everything is in the subject... I am looking at this solution for a 6*250GB raid5 data server, evolving in a 12*250 rai5 in the months to come... Performance is absolutely not a big issue for me,

Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ?

2006-01-05 Thread berk walker
Francois Barre wrote: 2006/1/5, berk walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Ext3 does have a fine record. Might I also suggest an added expense of 18 1/2% and do RAID6 for better protection against data loss? b- Well, I guess so. I just hope I'll be given enough money for it, since

Re: big raid5 trouble

2006-01-02 Thread berk walker
Czigola Gabor wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, berk walker wrote: I don 't think that will help you, per se. Why do you say it is your last chance? If you have n-1 disks OK, then you may be OK. If not, a spare will not help. Can you tell us more? b- So there is a RAID5 array with 4 disks. I

Re: big raid5 trouble

2006-01-01 Thread berk walker
Czigola Gabor wrote: Hello all! I'm not sure, that is this the right place to ask such question, but I'm in a big trouble with my RAID5 array. My last chance to get any of the data back stored in this array, is to unspare a spare disk, that is untouched since the removal. I googled but

Re: /boot on RAID5 with GRUB

2005-11-11 Thread berk walker
Spencer Tuttle wrote: Is it possible to have /boot on /dev/md_d0p1 in a RAID5 configuration and boot with GRUB? Spencer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: MD or MDADM bug?

2005-09-05 Thread berk walker
Neil Brown wrote: Why is it that people never complain about having to put information in /etc/fstab about what to mount, but they cannot cope with having to put similar information in /etc/mdadm.conf about what to assemble?? Maybe fstab already exists and is pretty readable, and from which a

Re: 3ware RAID (was Re: RAID resync stalled at 99.7% ?)

2005-09-02 Thread berk walker
Brad Dameron wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 20:38 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The components are 12x400GB drives attached to a 3ware 9500s-12 controller. They are configured as single disks on the controller, ie: no hardware RAID is

Re: raid1 boot issues

2005-08-25 Thread Berk Walker
Lewis Shobbrook wrote: On Thursday 25 August 2005 7:14 pm, you wrote: Fdisk it and set partitions to Raid Autodetect (0xfd) possibly? Tyler. Nope already set fd Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Hi All, I have a problem attempting to boot a raid 1 system from lilo. I have

Re: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes

2005-03-25 Thread berk walker
as I understand it, the topic is what happens when a RAID0 which is split twixt remote sites loses communication. What would you suggest as a method to keep the obvious from happening? A proactive approach, perhaps? Since, it seems, that write requests do not have to be ack'd immediatly,

Re: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes

2005-03-25 Thread berk walker
berk walker wrote: as I understand it, the topic is what happens when a RAID0 which is split twixt remote sites loses communication. What would you suggest as a method to keep the obvious from happening? oops! RAID1.. sorry A proactive approach, perhaps? Since, it seems, that write requests

Re: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes

2005-03-19 Thread berk walker
Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: On 2005-03-19T12:44:14, Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the case of a split brain, I think one must be 100% voided, and a full re-sync must be done. Exactly. And that's where the bitmaps come into play; you can look at what is modified on each side, merge those

Re: md Grow for Raid 5

2005-03-08 Thread berk walker
Already are, John. mdadm, and two or three others. b- John Poirier wrote: Greets, A lot of RAID 5 hardware controllers can grow a RAID 5 array (online capacity expansion). Will this be available in software RAID? John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in

Creating RAID1 with missing - mdadm 1.90

2005-03-05 Thread berk walker
What might the proper [or functional] syntax be to do this? I'm running 2.6.10-1.766-FC3, and mdadm 1.90. Thanks for the time. b- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread berk walker
Do you want a glass or some cheese? Actually, I am thinking that your main problem is a generic [almost] BIOS issue, as no one in right mind would expect your configuration. Might I suggest a somewhat more expensive, yet safer work-around? Split your drives between more boxes and gigabite link

Re: Migrating from SINGLE DISK to RAID1

2005-02-01 Thread berk walker
I seem to remember that one can create a degraded array. Then copy over, and shoot the old disk and add it to the aray. b- On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:01:12 +0100, Robert Heinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, can someone verify if the following statements are true ? - It's not possible to

Re: Broken harddisk

2005-01-29 Thread berk walker
I think it might be a good idea to check memory, and power supply. I have had several motherboards where the IDE channels went bad. I have become a believer of not using exact same drives in an array, because today's quality control in manufacturing (not design nor testing) Clones may have

Re: RAID-10 with odd number of disks (was Re: Software RAID 0+1 with mdadm.)

2005-01-27 Thread berk walker
In the past, I have found the quite often, too often, the disk errors happened in the 1st sectors of the disk (and I still have to reboot often). It does not look good when losing a whole disk, eh? b- On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:16:31 -0500, Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It rotates the pairs!