Re: SuSE 9.2 and 3ware 8506 card

2006-01-30 Thread Peter Daum
tw_clin is the (binary only) command line tool for maintaining 3ware controllers. All you can do with the web frontend can be done this way, too. Performance of the 3ware 8506 is pretty reasonable (I got a data rate of ~ 80 MB/s with RAID 10 , 55-60 with RAID 1 ) and about the same for reading an

Re: [klibc] Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jan 30, 2006, at 22:24, Greg KH wrote: Oh, an example of it working: # vol_id /dev/sda3 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_FS_TYPE=ext3 ID_FS_VERSION=1.0 ID_FS_UUID=9d2efd53-6b5a-4f84-86cc-def71269b7ca ID_FS_LABEL= ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE= # vol_

Re: [klibc] Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:42:45PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > What about non-DOS partitions? Is something like libblkid suitable as a starting point of something you can cut-down-to-size? textdata bss dec hex filename 249782272 12 272626a7e /lib/libblkid.s

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jan 30, 2006, at 21:01, Neil Brown wrote: On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 30, 2006, at 20:10, Neil Brown wrote: On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export a "flags" entry in addition to the current

Re: [klibc] Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Greg KH wrote: What are you looking for exactly? udev has a great helper program, volume_id, that identifies any type of filesystem that Linux knows about (it was based on the ext2 lib code, but smaller, and much more sane, and works better.) Would that help out here? It might, but it's als

Re: [klibc] Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:21:33PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:52:08PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I'm putting the final touches on kinit, which is the user-space > > replacement (based on klibc) for the whole in-kernel root-mount complex. > > Pretty much the one thi

Re: [klibc] Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:52:08PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm putting the final touches on kinit, which is the user-space > replacement (based on klibc) for the whole in-kernel root-mount complex. > Pretty much the one thing remaining -- other than lots of testing -- > is to handle aut

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Neil Brown wrote: Mac partition tables doesn't currently support autodetect (as far as I can tell). Let's keep it that way. For now I guess I'll just take the code from init/do_mounts_md.c; we can worry about ripping the RAID_AUTORUN code out of the kernel later. -hpa - To unsubs

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Neil Brown wrote: Well, grepping through fs/partitions/*.c, the 'flags' thing is set by efi.c, msdos.c sgi.c sun.c Of these, efi compares something against PARTITION_LINUX_RAID_GUID, and msdos.c, sgi.c and sun. compare something against LINUX_RAID_PARTITION. The former would look like e6d6d

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jan 30, 2006, at 20:10, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export > >> a "flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based > >> on

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export a > >>"flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based on > >>"struct parsed_partitions-

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Kyle Moffett wrote: Well, for an MSDOS partition table, you would look for '253', for a Mac partition table you could look for something like 'Linux_RAID' or similar (just arbitrarily define some name beginning with the Linux_ prefix), etc. This means that the partition table type would n

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jan 30, 2006, at 20:10, Neil Brown wrote: On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export a "flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based on "struct parsed_partitions->parts[].flags" fs/partitions/ check.h

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Neil Brown wrote: On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export a "flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based on "struct parsed_partitions->parts[].flags" (fs/partitions/check.h), which seems to be what ca

Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export a > "flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based on > "struct parsed_partitions->parts[].flags" (fs/partitions/check.h), which > seems to be what causes md_au

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Re: SuSE 9.2 and 3ware 8506 card

2006-01-30 Thread Mike Hardy
It is possible to run SMART commands through to individual drives on 3ware cards, even if you set the drives up as a hardware RAID array (making them non-addressable otherwise). I'd read up on 'smartmontools' (the linux SMART protocol implementation) and get ready to set up smartd to scan the driv

Re: Raid5 over sbp2 : sbp2 command abort

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Question to the linux-raid folks: Does md support disks on different > SCSI host adapters to be in the same RAID set? > md doesn't notice and doesn't care what the underlying devices are. It just sees Linux block devices, and sends read/write r

Re: Raid5 over sbp2 : sbp2 command abort

2006-01-30 Thread Stefan Richter
Francois Barre wrote: This is a cross-post (sorry for that), but I don't know where it comes from yet. Alas we get similar reports about software RAID over SBP-2 now and then on linux1394-devel or -user. I very much suspect sbp2 to be the culprit. One person reported different results with d