On Jan 19, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
Replying to myself with an update, mostly for the sake of the archives
(I went through the linux-raid mail from the last year yesterday while
waiting for my raw-partition backups to finish).
I mentioned[1] my trouble with the multipath
On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Steve Fairbairn wrote:
So the device I was trying to add was about 22 blocks too small.
Taking
Neils suggestion and looking at /proc/partitions showed this up
incredibly quickly.
Always leave a little space in the end; it makes sure you don't run
into that
On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
One partitionable RAID-10, perhaps, then partition as needed. Read
the discussion here about performance of LVM and RAID. I personally
don't do LVM unless I know I will have to have great flexibility of
configuration and can give up
Under 2.6.22.16, I physically pulled a SATA disk (/dev/sdac, connected to
an aacraid controller) that was acting as the local raid1 member of
/dev/md30.
Linux MD didn't see an /dev/sdac1 error until I tried forcing the issue by
doing a read (with dd) from /dev/md30:
Jan 21 17:08:07 lab17-233
Neil Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 21 January 2008 12:15:
On Sunday January 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A raid6 array with a spare and bitmap is idle: not mounted and with no
IO to it or any of its disks (obviously), as shown by iostat. However
it's consuming cpu: since reboot it used
Moshe Yudkowsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 20 January 2008 21:19:
Thanks for the tips, and in particular:
Iustin Pop wrote:
- if you download torrents, fragmentation is a real problem, so use a
filesystem that knows how to preallocate space (XFS and maybe ext4;
for XFS use
cc'ing Tanaka-san given his recent raid1 BUG report:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/14/515
On Jan 21, 2008 6:04 PM, Mike Snitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Under 2.6.22.16, I physically pulled a SATA disk (/dev/sdac, connected to
an aacraid controller) that was acting as the local raid1 member of
