Re: waiting for recovery to complete

2005-04-17 Thread Tim Moore
The recovery daemon adjusts reconstruction speed dynamically according to available system resources. Disk I/O is somewhat slower but works just fine. You don't have to wait. Hervé Eychenne wrote: Hi, Suppose I'm waiting for a recovery to be completed, and want to run a command afterwards

Re: raid1-diseaster on reboot: old version overwrites new version

2005-04-02 Thread Tim Moore
peter pilsl wrote: The only explantion to me is, that I had the wrong entry in my lilo.conf. I had root=/dev/hda6 there instead of root=/dev/md2 So maybe root was always mounted as /dev/hda6 and never as /dev/md2, which was started, but never had any data written to it. Is this a possible

Re: syncing RAID1 with more than 10MB/sec

2005-03-30 Thread Tim Moore
Generally the min/max values make no difference as long as max is 45000. System use during resync is the biggest factor other than raw CPU. Check actual resync times: cat /var/log/messages.8 | synctime array, blocks, sec, blocks/s, start, finish md10,2104448,63, 33403.9, Mar 16

dd with bytes/sec patch [was: non-optimal RAID 5 performance with 8 drive array]

2005-03-02 Thread Tim Moore
1. Grab coreutils 5.2.1 from gnu.org and the debian patch from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/coreutils 2. Extract the 2 dd patches which start with the line +--- coreutils-5.0/src/dd.c.orig2003-02-07 07:39:20.0 -0500 through, but not including, the line ---

Re: [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem

2005-02-13 Thread Tim Moore
Gordon Henderson wrote: Anyone using Tyan Thunder K8W motherboards??? I now know, there is a K8S (server?) version of that mobo, but at the time it was all orderd, I wasn't aware of it - my thoughts are there there is some sort of PCI/PCI-X problem with either the motherboard or the chipset, and

Re: [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem

2005-02-13 Thread Tim Moore
Gordon Henderson wrote: What I wanted was an 8-way RAID-1 for the boot partition (all of /, in reality) and I've done this many times in the past on other 2-5 way systems without issue. So I do the stuff I've done in the past, and theres nothing really new to me in that respect. (I'm using LILO)

Re: [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem

2005-02-05 Thread Tim Moore
Gordon Henderson wrote: ... It seemed more stable with just one PCI card in, so I have a 4-port card on order as a last ditch attempt to make it work - I did try re-flashing the BIOS on one board, (I have 2) as it seemed to be about a year old and there are several updates on the Tyan web-site,

Re: Urgent Problem: moving a raid

2001-02-24 Thread Tim Moore
I have two disks as raid on a BP6 (HPT366) and had one too many lockups on hde+hdg, so I decided to move it down to hdb+hdd. I've fixed two BP6s (V1.0 and V1.1) using the EC10 cap upgrade method. More detail is available on several of the Abit-centric overclocker sites. Between the two PGA