Re: Raid 4 idea!

2006-04-08 Thread JaniD++
Hello, ... What do you think, Neil? I don't know what Neil thinks, but I have never liked the performance implications of RAID-4, could you say a few words about why 4 rather than 5? My one test with RAID-4 showed the parity drive as a huge bottleneck, and seeing that practice followed

(X)FS corruption on 2 SATA disk RAID 1

2006-03-29 Thread JaniD++
Hello, list, I think, this is generally hardware error, but looks like software problem too. At this point there is no dirty data in memory! Cheers, Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# cmp -b /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 differ: byte 68881481729, line 308395510 is 301 M-A 74 [EMAIL

Re: Help Please! mdadm hangs when using nbd or gnbd

2006-02-23 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Brian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:25 AM Subject: Help Please! mdadm hangs when using nbd or gnbd Hail to the Great Linux RAID Gurus! I humbly seek any assistance you can offer. I am building

Re: raid 4, and bitmap.

2006-02-04 Thread JaniD++
Ahh, i almost forget! The mdadm is sometimes drop cannot allocate memory and next try segfault when i try -G --bitmap=internal on 2TB arrays! And after segfault, the full raid is stops... Cheers, Janos I think i found the bug, its me. :-) Today it happens again, and i see, i have

Re: Raid 4 resize, raid0 limit question

2006-02-04 Thread JaniD++
--cut-- I plan to resize (grow) one raid4 array. 1. stop the array. 2. resize the partition on all disks to fit the maximum size. The approach is currently not supported. It would need a change to mdadm to find the old superblock and relocate it to the new end of the

Re: raid 4, and bitmap.

2006-02-02 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:09 AM Subject: Re: raid 4, and bitmap. On Friday February 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list, Neil, I try to add bitmaps

Re: Raid 4 resize, raid0 limit question

2006-02-02 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:12 AM Subject: Re: Raid 4 resize, raid0 limit question On Friday February 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list, I plan

Fw: raid 4, and bitmap.

2006-02-02 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:20 AM Subject: Re: raid 4, and bitmap. - Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid

Re: where is the spare drive? :-)

2006-01-12 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:07 AM Subject: Re: where is the spare drive? :-) On Monday January 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. The question Why shows sdh2

built in readahead? - chunk size question

2006-01-12 Thread JaniD++
Hello, list, I have found one interesting issue. I use 4 disk node with NBD, and the concentrator distributes the load equal thanks to 32KB chunksize RAID0 inside. At this time i am working on the system upgrade, and found one interesting issue, and possibly one bottleneck on the system. The

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-10 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:25 AM Subject: Re: raid5 read performance 1. it is not good to use so many disks in one raid

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-10 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:05 PM Subject: Re: raid5 read performance NBD for network block device ? Yes. :-) why do u use it ? I need only one big

Re: where is the spare drive? :-)

2006-01-05 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:16 AM Subject: Re: where is the spare drive? :-) On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 00:26:58 +0100, JaniD++ wrote Hello, list, I found something

raid-reconf question

2005-12-29 Thread JaniD++
Hello, list, I try to test raidreconf utility on my spare drives in my disk nodes. (i want to convert raid0 chunksize 32K to 1M) Why happenning this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] raid-converter]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [faulty] md20 : active raid0

Re: RAID5 resync question BUGREPORT!

2005-12-22 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 5:46 AM Subject: Re: RAID5 resync question BUGREPORT! On Monday December 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message

Re: RAID0 performance question

2005-12-20 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:40 AM Subject: Re: RAID0 performance question On Sunday December 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: RAID5 resync question BUGREPORT!

2005-12-19 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 1:57 AM Subject: Re: RAID5 resync question BUGREPORT! On Thursday November 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Now i trying

Re: RAID0 performance question

2005-12-17 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:53 PM Subject: Re: RAID0 performance question JaniD++ wrote: But the cat /dev/md31 /dev/null (RAID0, the sum of 4 nodes

Re: RAID5 resync question BUGREPORT!

2005-12-08 Thread JaniD++
And the system is crashed. no ping reply, no netconsole error logging, no panic and reboot. Thanks, Janos - Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:05 AM Subject: Re: RAID5

Re: RAID5 resync question BUGREPORT!

2005-12-08 Thread JaniD++
the bitmap-create and bitmap update.) My data lost finally, really minimal. :-) Cheers, Janos - Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:43 AM Subject: Re: RAID5 resync question

Re: RAID5 resync question

2005-12-06 Thread JaniD++
I know, it is some chance to leave some incorrect parity information on the array, but may be corrected by next write. Or it may not be corrected by the next write. The parity-update algorithm assumes that the parity is correct. Hmm. If it works with parity-update algorithm, instead of

Re: RAID5 resync question

2005-12-06 Thread JaniD++
One time while my array is really rebuild one disk (paralel normal workload), i see, the new drive in the array *only* writes. i means with better handling of half-synced array is this: If read request comes to the ?% synced array, and if the read is on the synced half, only need to

Re: RAID0 performance question

2005-11-30 Thread JaniD++
Hello, But the cat /dev/md31 /dev/null (RAID0, the sum of 4 nodes) only makes ~450-490 Mbit/s, and i dont know why Somebody have an idea? :-) Try increasing the read-ahead setting on /dev/md31 using 'blockdev'. network block devices are likely to have latency

Re: RAID0 performance question

2005-11-26 Thread JaniD++
1:09 3 xfs_fsr 6955 root 15 0 1588 10836 S 2.7 0.0 0:56 2 nbd-client - Original Message - From: Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 4:56 PM Subject: Re: RAID0