Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday April 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea! it is a testing server I use that is the same kernel as our main server... just for tests like these so we don't screw up I never run the real thing before I'm sure I know I've got it working on our test server. Well... what I did

Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-12 Thread Shai
I now have the md0 raid1 with 2 disks and 1 spare: 0 22 650 active sync /dev/hdd1 1 22 661 active sync /dev/hdd2 2 22 672 spare /dev/hdd3 # /usr/local/sbin/mdadm -G -n 3 /dev/md0 mdadm: Cannot set

Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday April 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now have the md0 raid1 with 2 disks and 1 spare: 0 22 650 active sync /dev/hdd1 1 22 661 active sync /dev/hdd2 2 22 672 spare /dev/hdd3 #

Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-12 Thread Shai
yea! it is a testing server I use that is the same kernel as our main server... just for tests like these so we don't screw up I never run the real thing before I'm sure I know I've got it working on our test server. Well... what I did was: # cat

RE: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-12 Thread Ming Zhang
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:07 -0400, Guy wrote: } -Original Message- } From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- } [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ming Zhang } Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:13 PM } To: Andy Smith } Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org } Subject: Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2

Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:30PM +0200, Shai wrote: I have two SCSI disks on raid1. Since I have lots of reads from that raid, I want to add two more disks to this raid so that read will be faster. How should I add the new disks? Is this possible with md currently: Create a RAID-10 on

Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-11 Thread Laurent CARON
Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:30PM +0200, Shai wrote: I have two SCSI disks on raid1. Since I have lots of reads from that raid, I want to add two more disks to this raid so that read will be faster. How should I add the new disks? Is this possible with md currently:

Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 07:25:58PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:30PM +0200, Shai wrote: I have two SCSI disks on raid1. Since I have lots of reads from that raid, I want to add two more disks to this raid so that read will be faster. How

Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-11 Thread Ming Zhang
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 20:32 +, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 07:25:58PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:30PM +0200, Shai wrote: I have two SCSI disks on raid1. Since I have lots of reads from that raid, I want to add two more

RE: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more

2006-04-11 Thread Guy
} -Original Message- } From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- } [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ming Zhang } Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:13 PM } To: Andy Smith } Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org } Subject: Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more } } On Tue,