safest way to swap in a new physical disk

2006-11-14 Thread Will Sheffler
Hi. What is the safest way to switch out a disk in a software raid array created with mdadm? I'm not talking about replacing a failed disk, I want to take a healthy disk in the array and swap it for another physical disk. Specifically, I have an array made up of 10 250gb software-raid

Raid 1 up after raidhotadd without rebuild

2006-11-14 Thread Elmar Weber
Hello, I'm trying to rebuild a raid1 array by adding the replacement disk (sda) to the old one (sdf). I zero'd the new disk (sda) and created the partition table corresponding to the existing one. I adapted my raidtab to the new drive node (changed due to other disk replacement) and now I'm

Re: Raid 1 up after raidhotadd without rebuild

2006-11-14 Thread Elmar Weber
Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday November 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas why this is and how to fix it? You don't mention a kernel version. If it is 2.6.18, upgrade to 2.6.18.2. Its 2.6.18, I'll upgrade and try, I checked the log and guess it is [PATCH] md: Fix bug where spares don't

Re[4]: RAID1 submirror failure causes reboot?

2006-11-14 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello Jens, JA Then lets wait for Jim to repeat his testing with all the debugging JA options enabled, that should make us a little wiser. Ok, I'll enable the kernel rebuilt with these options and report any findings later. So far, I'll move to the other questions aroused. I remember when I ran

Re: Raid 1 up after raidhotadd without rebuild

2006-11-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday November 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas why this is and how to fix it? You don't mention a kernel version. If it is 2.6.18, upgrade to 2.6.18.2. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recovering from default FC6 install

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Doug Ledford wrote: On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 01:00 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I tried something new on a test system, using the install partitioning tools to partition the disk. I had three drives and went with RAID-1 for boot, and RAID-5+LVM for the rest. After the install was complete I

How mdadm can support 2T

2006-11-14 Thread 俞先印
Ilinux-raid want to create raid0 use mdadm 2.5.6, kernel 2.6.18-iop3 on the intel iop80331(32bit). use 5 disks, and every hard disk is 500G. But it can't beyond 2T. How can support 2T on the 32bit cpu ? command and log : #mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l0 -n5 /dev/sd[c,d,e,f,g] # mdadm --detail