nolargeio=1 ?

2005-03-14 Thread peter.greis
Greetings, I found that for reisfer filesystems sometimes the option nolargeio=1 is added to the fstab entry. At first blush this seems to be a workaround for a kernel bug. Does anyone have any more information ? I am running reiser - lvm2 - raid5 currently. regards, -Peter - To unsubscribe

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-14 Thread David Greaves
Mitchell Laks wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 10:49 am, David Greave wrote: Many Helpful remarks: David I am grateful that you were there for me. No probs - we've all been there! My assessment (correct me if I am wrong) is that I have to rethink my architecture. As I continue to work with

Re: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes

2005-03-14 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-03-14T15:43:52, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, just a question about how the bitmap stuff works with 1++-redundancy, say RAID1 with 2 mirrors, or RAID6. One disk fails and is replaced/reattached, and resync begins. Now another disk fails and is replaced. Is the bitmap

Q: Moving raid1 array to another host, safe?

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Osicki
Hi I have two Linux boxes running kernel 2.4.21 having access to two devices over fibre channel SAN. What I'm trying to achive is host based mirroring with ability to move the storage from one host to another. On the firs host I created a raid1 array, put LVM on it, created a filesystem. To move

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-14 Thread Greg Stark
Alex Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a 14 drive stripe will max out the PCI bus long before anything else, Hopefully anyone with a 14 drive stripe is using some combination of 64 bit PCI-X cards running at 66Mhz... the only reason for a stripe this size is to get a total accessible size

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
Arshavir Grigorian wrote: Alex Turner wrote: [] Well, by putting the pg_xlog directory on a separate disk/partition, I was able to increase this rate to about 50 or so per second (still pretty far from your numbers). Next I am going to try putting the pg_xlog on a RAID1+0 array and see if that

Re: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes

2005-03-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday March 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-03-14T21:22:57, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, just a question about how the bitmap stuff works with 1++-redundancy, say RAID1 with 2 mirrors, or RAID6. I assume you mean RAID1 with 3 drives (there isn't really one main

RE: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-14 Thread Guy
You said: If your write size is smaller than chunk_size*N (N = number of data blocks in a stripe), in order to calculate correct parity you have to read data from the remaining drives. Neil explained it in this message: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=108682190730593w=2 Guy

Re: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes

2005-03-14 Thread Paul Clements
Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday March 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: avoid setting of sb-events_lo = 1 when creating a 0.90 superblock -- it doesn't seem to be necessary and it was causing the event counters to start at 4 billion+ (events_lo is actually the high part of the events counter, on

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-14 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
All, I have a 13 disk (250G each) software raid 5 set using 1 16 port adaptec SATA controller. I am very happy with the performance. The reason I went with the 13 disk raid 5 set was for the space NOT performance. I have a single postgresql database that is over 2 TB with about 500 GB