Create Raid6 with 1 missing member fails

2008-02-17 Thread Sevrin Robstad
I tried to create a raid6 with one missing member, but it fails. It works fine to create a raid6 with two missing members. Is it supposed to be like that ? mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n5 -l6 -c256 /dev/sd[bcde]1 missing raid5: failed to run raid set md0 mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Input/output error

Re: bad performance on RAID 5

2007-01-18 Thread Sevrin Robstad
Justin Piszcz wrote: I'm suffering from bad performance on my RAID5. a echo check /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action gives a speed at only about 5000K/sec , and HIGH load average : # uptime 20:03:55 up 8 days, 19:55, 1 user, load average: 11.70, 4.04, 1.52 kernel is 2.6.18.1.2257.fc5 mdadm is

Re: bad performance on RAID 5

2007-01-18 Thread Sevrin Robstad
I've tried to increase the cache size - I can't measure any difference. Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: did u increase the stripe cache size ? On 1/18/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sevrin Robstad wrote: I'm suffering from bad performance on my RAID5. a echo check /sys/block

Re: bad performance on RAID 5

2007-01-18 Thread Sevrin Robstad
Steve Cousins wrote: Sevrin Robstad wrote: I'm suffering from bad performance on my RAID5. a echo check /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action gives a speed at only about 5000K/sec , and HIGH load average : What do you get when you try something like: time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mount-point/test.dat bs

Re: bad performance on RAID 5

2007-01-18 Thread Sevrin Robstad
Mark Hahn wrote: Chunk Size : 256K well, that's pretty big. it means 6*256K is necessary to do a whole-stripe update; your stripe cache may be too small to be effective. If they are on the PCI bus, that is about right, you probably should be getting 10-15MB/s, but it is about right.

FIXED : brute-force my RAID 5 - just some fsck errors..

2006-07-25 Thread Sevrin Robstad
I finally got my old RAID-5 up again, after bruteforcing the setup of it... (A Script that ran mdadm --create --run -n 6 -l 5 /dev/md0 /dev/1-5 missing;fsck -n -f /dev/md0;mdadm --stop /dev/md0;) The first run didn't find anything that made sense, but desperately I ran the same script with -c

Re: trying to brute-force my RAID 5...

2006-07-18 Thread Sevrin Robstad
Neil Brown wrote: I have written some posts about this before... My 6 disk RAID 5 broke down because of hardware failure. When I tried to get it up'n'running again I did a --create without any missing disk, which made it rebuild. I have also lost all information about how the old RAID was set

Re: trying to brute-force my RAID 5...

2006-07-17 Thread Sevrin Robstad
Molle Bestefich wrote: Sevrin Robstad wrote: I got a friend of mine to make a list of all the 6^6 combinations of dev 1 2 3 4 5 missing, shouldn't this work ??? Only if you get the layout and chunk size right. And make sure that you know whether you were using partitions (eg. sda1

trying to brute-force my RAID 5...

2006-07-16 Thread Sevrin Robstad
I have written some posts about this before... My 6 disk RAID 5 broke down because of hardware failure. When I tried to get it up'n'running again I did a --create without any missing disk, which made it rebuild. I have also lost all information about how the old RAID was set up.. I got a

PLease help me reconstruct my array (RAID 5 ) if possible.

2006-07-08 Thread Sevrin Robstad
As I wrote in another thread, because of hardware failure my RAID 5 array crashed. After som rebuilding the array crashed again. I have built the array again with the right settings, but it has rebuilt and data is gone - I can not find any EXT3 partition on the array anymore. Is there any way

Re: RAID 5 crash, is there any way to recover some data ?

2006-07-06 Thread Sevrin Robstad
Is there not any way for me to recover my data As I said, i have already rebuilt the raid with wrong disc setup... Now i have built the raid with the right setup, and one missing disk. But there's not any ext3 partition on it anymore. Is there any way to search trough the md0 device and

RAID 5 crash, is there any way to recover some data ?

2006-07-03 Thread Sevrin Robstad
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