Re: do_md_run returned -22 [Was: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1]

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday January 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:23:30 +0100 Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 01/17/2008 11:35 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/ > > > > still the same md i

Re: Raid over 48 disks ... for real now

2008-01-17 Thread Janek Kozicki
Norman Elton said: (by the date of Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:19:35 -0500) > I wish RHEL would support XFS/ZFS, but for now, I'm stuck with ext3. there is ext4 (or ext4dev) - it's an ext3 modified to support 1024 PB size (1048576 TB). You could check if it's feasible. Personally I'd always stick wi

Re: do_md_run returned -22 [Was: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1]

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:23:30 +0100 Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/17/2008 11:35 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/ > > still the same md issue (do_md_run returns -22=EINVAL) as in -rc6-mm1 > reporte

Incompatibility between Linux and Windows

2008-01-17 Thread Leopoldo Ghielmetti
Hi, I've some questions on the Linux software raid. I have assembled a raid1 array with 2 external disks and what we want is to mount those disks in Linux (using raid), in Windows (using a read-only mount of only one disk) and in a Linux without the raid support (also with a read-only mount). I r

Re: Raid over 48 disks ... for real now

2008-01-17 Thread Norman Elton
>> Hi, sounds like a monster server. I am interested in how you will make >> the space useful to remote machines- iscsi? this is what I am >> researching currently. Yes, it's a honker of a box. It will be collecting data from various "collector" servers. The plan right now is to collect the file t

Raid over 48 disks ... for real now

2008-01-17 Thread Norman Elton
I posed the question a few weeks ago about how to best accommodate software RAID over an array of 48 disks (a Sun X4500 server, a.k.a. Thumper). I appreciate all the suggestions. Well, the hardware is here. It is indeed six Marvell 88SX6081 SATA controllers, each with eight 1TB drives, for a total

SX8 docs (was: The SX4 challenge)

2008-01-17 Thread James Andrewartha
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 19:55 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Promise just gave permission to post the docs for their PDC20621 (i.e. > SX4) hardware: > http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/promise/pdc20621-pguide-1.2.pdf.bz2 > > joining the existing PDC20621 DIMM and PLL docs: > http://gkernel.sourcefo

do_md_run returned -22 [Was: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1]

2008-01-17 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 01/17/2008 11:35 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/ still the same md issue (do_md_run returns -22=EINVAL) as in -rc6-mm1 reported by Thorsten here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/27/45 Is there around any fix fo