Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steve Cousins wrote: Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Steve, The recent Messed up creating new array... thread has someone who started by using the whole drives but she now wants to use partitions because the array is not starting automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom). I'm

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-14 Thread Steve Cousins
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Steve, The recent Messed up creating new array... thread has someone who started by using the whole drives but she now wants to use partitions because the array is not starting automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom). I'm guessing this is because

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday September 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil (or others), what is the recommended way to have the array start up if you use whole drives instead of partitions? Do you put mdadm -A etc. in rc.local? I would use mdadm -As is rc.local (or /etc/init.d/mdadm or whatever)

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-13 Thread Lem
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 17:05 -0400, Steve Cousins wrote: The recent Messed up creating new array... thread has someone who started by using the whole drives but she now wants to use partitions because the array is not starting automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom). I'm

RE: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-12 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Steve, The recent Messed up creating new array... thread has someone who started by using the whole drives but she now wants to use partitions because the array is not starting automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom). I'm guessing this is because there is no partigion ID

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Cousins
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 at 6:34am, Justin Piszcz wrote On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Steve Cousins wrote: As for system information, it is (was) a Dual Opteron with CentOS 4.3 (now I'm putting FC5 on it as I write) with a 3Ware 8506-12 SATA RAID card that I am using in

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Cousins
Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday August 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a set of 11 500 GB drives. Currently each has two 250 GB partitions (/dev/sd?1 and /dev/sd?2). I have two RAID6 arrays set up, each with 10 drives and then I wanted the 11th drive to be a hot-spare. When

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-08-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Steve Cousins wrote: Hi, I have a set of 11 500 GB drives. Currently each has two 250 GB partitions (/dev/sd?1 and /dev/sd?2). I have two RAID6 arrays set up, each with 10 drives and then I wanted the 11th drive to be a hot-spare. When I originally created the array

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-08-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 at 6:34am, Justin Piszcz wrote On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Steve Cousins wrote: As for system information, it is (was) a Dual Opteron with CentOS 4.3 (now I'm putting FC5 on it as I write) with a 3Ware 8506-12 SATA RAID card that I am using in JBOD mode so I could do software

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-08-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday August 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a set of 11 500 GB drives. Currently each has two 250 GB partitions (/dev/sd?1 and /dev/sd?2). I have two RAID6 arrays set up, each with 10 drives and then I wanted the 11th drive to be a hot-spare. When I originally created