Re: A raid in a raid.

mullaly wrote: [] All works well until a system reboot. md2 appears to be brought up before md0 and md1 which causes the raid to start without two of its drives. Is there anyway to fix this? How about listing the arrays in proper order in mdadm.conf ? /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

Hello Neil, Thanks for the confirmations! It's all very clear now. Case closed. Best, Seb. On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Neil Brown wrote: | On Saturday July 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi Neil, | | | | Could you tell me if such a mechanism exists in mdadm? | | Or should I accept the

3ware Auto-Carve Question

Quick question-- under Kernel 2.4 without 2TB support enabled, the only other option is to use auto-carving to get the maximum amount of space easily, however, after doing this (2TB, 2TB, 1.8TB) for a 10 x 750GB array, only the first partition remains afer reboot. Before reboot: /dev/sdb1

Re: 3ware Auto-Carve Question

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Quick question-- under Kernel 2.4 without 2TB support enabled, the only other option is to use auto-carving to get the maximum amount of space easily, however, after doing this (2TB, 2TB, 1.8TB) for a 10 x 750GB array, only the first partition

Re: 3ware Auto-Carve Question

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Quick question-- under Kernel 2.4 without 2TB support enabled, the only other option is to use auto-carving to get the maximum amount of space easily, however, after doing this (2TB, 2TB, 1.8TB) for a 10

Need clarification on raid1 resync behavior with bitmap support

On 6/1/06, NeilBrown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When an array has a bitmap, a device can be removed and re-added and only blocks changes since the removal (as recorded in the bitmap) will be resynced. Neil, Does the same apply when a bitmap-enabled raid1's member goes faulty? Meaning even if a

Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:35:45AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On 20 Jul 2007, at 06:13, Al Boldi wrote: As always, a good friend of mine managed to scratch my partion table by cat'ing /dev/full into /dev/sda. I was able to push him out of the way, but at least the first 100MB are

Re: pata_via with software raid1: attempt to access beyond end of device

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:59:41 +1000 Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So reiserfs thinks the devices is 64K larger than it really is. I wonder how that happened. resize_reiserfs -s -64K /dev/md1 Neil, I discovered how the 64k larger issue happened... It was my fault.. I

Re: raid5:md3: read error corrected , followed by , Machine Check

Hello Andrew , On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Andrew Burgess wrote: The 'MCE's have been ongoing for sometime . I have replaced every item in the system except the chassis scsi backplane power supply(750Watts) . Everything . MB,cpu,memory,scsi controllers, ... These

RAID and filesystem setup / tuning questions regarding specific scenario

I'm making raid 5 consisting of 4 disks, 500 GB each, with one spare standby. In future to be expanded with extra disks. Server will be running with ups, and with extra machine doing daily rsync backup of the system and stuff deemed important. On top of the raid, there will probably be simple

Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery

Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:54:14PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: sfdisk -d already works most of the time. Not as a verbatim tool (I actually semi-frequently use a sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk invocation as a way to _rewrite_ the CHS fields to other values after changing