Re: Raid corruption problems.

2006-12-24 Thread John McMonagle
Bill Davidsen wrote: > John McMonagle wrote: > >> Have a raid1 backup server that seems to get corrupted. >> This is the 3rd time in about a year. >> Have 2 other backup servers that were cloned from this one that have >> no problems. >> >> Done a c

Raid corruption problems.

2006-12-15 Thread John McMonagle
Have a raid1 backup server that seems to get corrupted. This is the 3rd time in about a year. Have 2 other backup servers that were cloned from this one that have no problems. Done a couple kernel upgrades recently. Now has 2.6.18-2 kernel. It's based on Debian sarge. It's a low end Intel ser

Re: RAID-5 recovery

2006-09-06 Thread John McMonagle
Neil Brown wrote: > On Sunday September 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Clive Messer wrote: >> >> >>>This leads me to a question. I understand from reading the linux-raid >>>archives >>>that the current behaviour when rebuilding with a single badblock on another >>>disk is f

Re: RAID10 vs. LVM on RAID1

2005-08-23 Thread John McMonagle
I did lvm over 2 raid 1 arrays recently. Running dd on the lv gives about 3 times the drive speed. Should be 4 times . I hate to give up performance but I'm willing to live with it as lvm makes disk management so much easier. John Gregory Seidman wrote: Is there any advantage to RAID1

optimum blockdev --setra settings

2005-04-18 Thread John McMonagle
Anyone establish optimum blockdev --setra settings for raid on a 2.6 kernel? There has been some discussions on the lvm mailing list. In the case of lvm on raid sounds like it's best to use 0 on the md and disk devices and something around 1024 and 4096 on the lvm devices. It seems make some sense

Re: Can uuid of raid array be changed?

2005-04-18 Thread John McMonagle
Luca Berra wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:04:13PM -0500, John McMonagle wrote: Need to duplicate some computers that are using raid 1. I was thinking of just adding adding an extra drive and then moving it to the new system. The only problem is the clones will all have the same uuids. If at

Can uuid of raid array be changed?

2005-04-17 Thread John McMonagle
Need to duplicate some computers that are using raid 1. I was thinking of just adding adding an extra drive and then moving it to the new system. The only problem is the clones will all have the same uuids. If at some later date the drives got mixed up I could see a possibilities for disaster.

Re: Convert raid5 to raid1?

2005-03-10 Thread John McMonagle
s that there should be provision to send notification when it happens. With both that would really help. John Brad Campbell wrote: John McMonagle wrote: Was planning to adding a hot spare to my 3 disk raid5 array and was thinking if I go to 4 drives I would be a better off as 2 raid1 arrays considering th

Convert raid5 to raid1?

2005-03-10 Thread John McMonagle
Was planning to adding a hot spare to my 3 disk raid5 array and was thinking if I go to 4 drives I would be a better off as 2 raid1 arrays considering the current state of raid5. If you think that is wrong please speak up now :) Thinking I would make a raid1 array for /. The rest of the firs

Add a spare to raid5 array?

2005-03-09 Thread John McMonagle
Can a spare be added to an existing raid 5 array? I do not see any way to do it. John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: kernel panic??

2005-03-07 Thread John McMonagle
he 3rd failure. Had 2 bad drives in the first week. Even then is it possible for a drive failure to cause a kernel panic??? Really appreciate feedback even if it's what hardware works for you. John John McMonagle wrote: It kernel panicked again at around 30% with the 2.6.10 kernel :( I'm

Re: slow resync+ kernel panic??

2005-03-03 Thread John McMonagle
suggestions? Is it possible to stop the resync to to get some data off it? It's really unresponsive with it running. My guess is there is something wrong with a drive and with the raid resync code. I'll do some tests on the drives. The rest I'll need help with. John John McMonag

slow resync??

2005-03-02 Thread John McMonagle
Have a backup system that recently had a kernel panic and am having problems with rsync. It's a p2 460mhz mb 512 mb ram. promise sata comtroler. 3 200gb sata drives debain sarge 2.6.10 kernel from kernel.org with smart sata patches. mdadm v1.9.0 /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] md0