Re: raid-0 to raid-5 ?

2007-07-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: II. *MDADM --GROW* - The current total of critical data happen to fit within 300GB. What do you think if I : - copy all the critical data to the newer 320GB drive. - create a new RAID-5 set with the original 300GB drives (the set will have

Re: Software Raid 5, multiple raid controller disk mixup problem

2007-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tobias Rehn wrote: Hey Guys, I am currently having a strange problem. I have a system with 4 onboard sata ports. The system also has four 4-port sata controllers plugged into it. The raid works fine but if i reboot the system, sometimes my harddisks are mixed up so that my system disk

Re: A raid in a raid.

2007-07-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
mullaly wrote: [] All works well until a system reboot. md2 appears to be brought up before md0 and md1 which causes the raid to start without two of its drives. Is there anyway to fix this? How about listing the arrays in proper order in mdadm.conf ? /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list

Software Raid 5, multiple raid controller disk mixup problem

2007-07-17 Thread Tobias Rehn
Hey Guys, I am currently having a strange problem. I have a system with 4 onboard sata ports. The system also has four 4-port sata controllers plugged into it. The raid works fine but if i reboot the system, sometimes my harddisks are mixed up so that my system disk(normally sda

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-07-12 Thread Johny Mail list
table my system was normal, and a fdisk -l /dev/sdb give me the right table (but my disk was disconnected ...). Thanks for paying attention of my problem :) - 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

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Lord
Johny Mail list wrote: 2007/7/3, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brad Campbell wrote: Johny Mail list wrote: Hello list, I have a little question about software RAID on Linux. I have installed Software Raid on all my SC1425 servers DELL by believing that the md raid was a strong driver

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
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Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-06-27 Thread Johny Mail list
2007/6/26, Brad Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johny Mail list wrote: Hello list, I have a little question about software RAID on Linux. I have installed Software Raid on all my SC1425 servers DELL by believing that the md raid was a strong driver. And recently i make some test on a server

Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-06-26 Thread Johny Mail list
Hello list, I have a little question about software RAID on Linux. I have installed Software Raid on all my SC1425 servers DELL by believing that the md raid was a strong driver. And recently i make some test on a server and try to view if the RAID hard drive power failure work fine, so i power

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-06-26 Thread Brad Campbell
Johny Mail list wrote: Hello list, I have a little question about software RAID on Linux. I have installed Software Raid on all my SC1425 servers DELL by believing that the md raid was a strong driver. And recently i make some test on a server and try to view if the RAID hard drive power failure

Re: Raid-1 to Raid-5 conversion possible?

2007-01-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday January 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have for a long time been wondering if it is possible to convert a 2 disk Raid-1 array to a 3 disk Raid-5 array using mdadm? Tonight I stumbled upon this article: http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/05/stupid-raid-tricks-with-evms

Drive issues in RAID vs. not-RAID ..

2006-06-28 Thread Gordon Henderson
I've seen a few comments to the effect that some disks have problems when used in a RAID setup and I'm a bit preplexed as to why this might be.. What's the difference between a drive in a RAID set (either s/w or h/w) and a drive on it's own, assuming the load, etc. is roughly the same in each

Re: Drive issues in RAID vs. not-RAID ..

2006-06-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday June 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen a few comments to the effect that some disks have problems when used in a RAID setup and I'm a bit preplexed as to why this might be.. What's the difference between a drive in a RAID set (either s/w or h/w) and a drive on it's own

Re: Problems with device-mapper on top of RAID-5 and RAID-6

2006-06-05 Thread Nix
On 2 Jun 2006, Uwe Meyer-Gruhl uttered the following: Neil's suggestion indicates that there may be a race condition stacking md and dm over each other, but I have not yet tested that patch. I once had problems stacking cryptoloop over RAID-6, so it might really be a stacking problem. We don't

Problems with device-mapper on top of RAID-5 and RAID-6

2006-06-02 Thread Dr. Uwe Meyer-Gruhl
far is: 1. There are problems with the combination of RAID and device mapper (e.g. for encrypted filesystems). The thread started off with this observation. 2. There are filesystem corruptions with heavy loads (i.e. copying big files or many files to the filesystem). The bug usually takes long

Re: software raid to Hardware raid

2006-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ken wrote: Hello, We have a Red Hat 7.1 box running kernel 2.4.17-SMP. We have raidtools installed. We had a hardware RAID that got converted to a software raid by mistake. Is there any way to go back without loosing the data? the device is showing up as /dev/md0. Thank you. 1

Re: software raid to Hardware raid

2006-03-27 Thread Ken Swarthout
Thank you for your reply. It is a little more than a terabyte worth of information. And although we have everything backed up on tape, it will take a very long time to restore it. The reason we need to do this is because when it was converted to software RAID, we lost a lot of performance

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-03-06 Thread Gordon Henderson
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Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gordon Henderson wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Francois Barre wrote: 2006/2/17, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, berk walker wrote: RAID-6 *will* give you your required 2-drive redundancy. Anyway, if you wish to resize your setup to 5 drives

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-03-05 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Bill Davidsen wrote: Still scratching my head, trying to work out if raid-10 can withstand (any) 2 disks of failure though, although after reading md(4) a few times now, I'm begining to think it can't (unless you are lucky!) So maybe I'll just stick with Raid-6 as I know

4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-02-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
out quiet well, and cheaper than 2 x 500GB drives!) So RAID-6, which I have have been using for a year or so now with good results, or RAID-10, which I've never used. I suspect RAID-10 might give me more performance, not having the parity calculations to do, but is it stable and reliable? I've

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-02-17 Thread berk walker
, etc. 4 drives has worked out quiet well, and cheaper than 2 x 500GB drives!) So RAID-6, which I have have been using for a year or so now with good results, or RAID-10, which I've never used. I suspect RAID-10 might give me more performance, not having the parity calculations to do

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-02-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, berk walker wrote: RAID-6 *will* give you your required 2-drive redundancy. Hm. I was under the impression (mistakenly?) that RAID10 (as opposed to RAID1+0) would give me 2 disk redundancy in far mode, however maybe I need to re-read the stuff on RAID10 again ... Gordon

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-02-17 Thread Francois Barre
2006/2/17, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, berk walker wrote: RAID-6 *will* give you your required 2-drive redundancy. Anyway, if you wish to resize your setup to 5 drives one day or another, I guess raid 6 would be preferable, because one day or another, a patch

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-02-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Francois Barre wrote: 2006/2/17, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, berk walker wrote: RAID-6 *will* give you your required 2-drive redundancy. Anyway, if you wish to resize your setup to 5 drives one day or another, I guess raid 6 would

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-02-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:14:37PM +, Gordon Henderson wrote: Still scratching my head, trying to work out if raid-10 can withstand (any) 2 disks of failure though, although after reading md(4) a few times now, I'm begining to think it can't (unless you are lucky!) So maybe I'll just stick

Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..

2006-02-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:14:37PM +, Gordon Henderson wrote: Still scratching my head, trying to work out if raid-10 can withstand (any) 2 disks of failure though, although after reading md(4) a few times now, I'm begining to think it can't

Re: RAID 1 vs RAID 0

2006-01-18 Thread Max Waterman
Mark Hahn wrote: They seem to suggest RAID 0 is faster for reading than RAID 1, and I can't figure out why. with R0, streaming from two disks involves no seeks; with R1, a single stream will have to read, say 0-64K from the first disk, and 64-128K from the second. these could happen

Re: RAID 1 vs RAID 0

2006-01-18 Thread Brad Campbell
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Re: RAID 1 vs RAID 0

2006-01-18 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
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Re: RAID 1 vs RAID 0

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday January 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Hahn wrote: They seem to suggest RAID 0 is faster for reading than RAID 1, and I can't figure out why. with R0, streaming from two disks involves no seeks; with R1, a single stream will have to read, say 0-64K from the first disk

Re: RAID 1 vs RAID 0

2006-01-18 Thread John Hendrikx
Max Waterman wrote: Mark Hahn wrote: They seem to suggest RAID 0 is faster for reading than RAID 1, and I can't figure out why. with R0, streaming from two disks involves no seeks; with R1, a single stream will have to read, say 0-64K from the first disk, and 64-128K from the second

Re: RAID 1 vs RAID 0

2006-01-17 Thread Max Waterman
by the drives' cache... Max. Max Waterman wrote: Hi, I've been reading a bit about RAID 1 vs RAID 0 on these pages : http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/single_Level1.htm They seem to suggest RAID 0 is faster for reading than RAID 1, and I can't figure out why. Clearly, the write

Re: RAID 1 vs RAID 0

2006-01-17 Thread Mark Hahn
They seem to suggest RAID 0 is faster for reading than RAID 1, and I can't figure out why. with R0, streaming from two disks involves no seeks; with R1, a single stream will have to read, say 0-64K from the first disk, and 64-128K from the second. these could happen at the same time

Re: 3ware RAID (was Re: RAID resync stalled at 99.7% ?)

2005-09-02 Thread Christopher Smith
Daniel Pittman wrote: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The components are 12x400GB drives attached to a 3ware 9500s-12 controller. They are configured as single disks on the controller, ie: no hardware RAID is involved. A quick question for you, because I have a client

Re: 3ware RAID (was Re: RAID resync stalled at 99.7% ?)

2005-09-02 Thread Brad Dameron
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 20:38 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The components are 12x400GB drives attached to a 3ware 9500s-12 controller. They are configured as single disks on the controller, ie: no hardware RAID is involved. A quick

Re: 3ware RAID (was Re: RAID resync stalled at 99.7% ?)

2005-09-02 Thread berk walker
Brad Dameron wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 20:38 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The components are 12x400GB drives attached to a 3ware 9500s-12 controller. They are configured as single disks on the controller, ie: no hardware RAID

Re: 3ware RAID (was Re: RAID resync stalled at 99.7% ?)

2005-09-02 Thread Brad Dameron
support is also more upt to date. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com - 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: 3ware RAID (was Re: RAID resync stalled at 99.7% ?)

2005-09-02 Thread Ming Zhang
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Re: 3ware RAID (was Re: RAID resync stalled at 99.7% ?)

2005-09-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
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RE: Scripts for RAID-10 and RAID-01

2001-02-26 Thread Zach Lowry
Well, perhaps I'm mistaken in my wording... I have currently what I call a 01, but perhaps it's really called a 10. It's 2 sets of 3 partitions striped into a RAID 0 set, then mirrored. So, it's striped, and then mirrored, hence 01. Now, for 10, I attempted to create 3 RAID 1 mirroes