Re: limits on raid

2007-06-17 Thread Wakko Warner
dean gaudet wrote: On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: When I've had an unclean shutdown on one of my systems (10x 50gb raid5) it's always slowed the system down when booting up. Quite significantly I must say. I wait until I can login and change the rebuild max speed to slow

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-17 Thread Wakko Warner
dean gaudet wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: i use an external write-intent bitmap on a raid1 to avoid this... you could use internal bitmap but that slows down i/o too much for my tastes. i also use an external xfs journal for the same reason. 2 disk raid1

autodetect question

2000-12-01 Thread Wakko Warner
If I have all of MD as a module and autodetect raid enabled, do the MD drives that the machine has get detected and setup 1) at boot 2) at module load or 3) it doesn't This is another question. Is it possible to change the code so that autodetect works when the whole disk is part