Re: raid1 or raid10 for /boot

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Hill
not sure how that'd be layed out). RAID-10 uses striping as well as mirroring, and the striping breaks both grub and lilo (and, AFAIK, every other boot manager currently out there). Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: raid1 or raid10 for /boot

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Hill
On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 12:21:40PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:17:35AM +, Robin Hill wrote: On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 07:34:54AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: I understand that lilo and grub only can boot partitions that look like a normal single

Re: RAID needs more to survive a power hit, different /boot layout for example (was Re: draft howto on making raids for surviving a disk crash)

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Hill
On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 05:06:09AM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: Robin, thanks for the explanation. I have a further question. Robin Hill wrote: Once the file system is mounted then hdX,Y maps according to the device.map file (which may actually bear no resemblance to the drive order

Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Hill
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Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Hill
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Re: RAID needs more to survive a power hit, different /boot layout for example (was Re: draft howto on making raids for surviving a disk crash)

2008-02-03 Thread Robin Hill
filesystem and don't have it automounted. I only mount the partition to install a new kernel, then unmount it again. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill[EMAIL PROTECTED] | / / ) | Little Jim says

Re: RAID needs more to survive a power hit, different /boot layout for example (was Re: draft howto on making raids for surviving a disk crash)

2008-02-03 Thread Robin Hill
On Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 02:46:54PM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: Robin Hill wrote: This is wrong - the disk you boot from will always be hd0 (no matter what the map file says - that's only used after the system's booted). You need to remap the hd0 device for each disk: grub --no-floppy EOF

Re: Error mounting a reiserfs on renamed raid1

2008-01-25 Thread Robin Hill
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Re: mdadm error when trying to replace a failed drive in RAID5 array

2008-01-20 Thread Robin Hill
yet). Have you checked the actual partition sizes? Particularly if it's a different type of drive as drives from different manufacturers can vary by quite a large amount. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill[EMAIL PROTECTED] | / / ) | Little

Re: Linux RAID Partition Offset 63 cylinders / 30% performance hit?

2007-12-19 Thread Robin Hill
(barring any knowledge of the actual physical disk layout anyway, and block remapping may well make that rather irrelevant). That's my take on this one anyway. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill[EMAIL PROTECTED] | / / ) | Little Jim says

Re: Raid over 48 disks

2007-12-18 Thread Robin Hill
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Re: Fwd: issues rebuilding raid array.

2007-10-22 Thread Robin Hill
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Re: Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

2007-07-20 Thread Robin Hill
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Re: Software RAID5 Horrible Write Speed On 3ware Controller!!

2007-07-18 Thread Robin Hill
)? In which case would it be better (performance-wise) to provide the su,sw values or not? I'm planning on doing some benchmarking first but thought I'd check whether there's any definitive answers first. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill[EMAIL

Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-10 Thread Robin Hill
for use very quickly. So what you're seeing in /proc/mdstat is the speed in calculating and writing the data for the final drive (and is, unless computationally limited, going to be the write speed of the single drive). HTH, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill