Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-28 Thread Chris Allen
Andrew Moise wrote: On 10/17/06, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had problems with XFS, but that was about 2 years ago, so things might have improved by then. Well, filling some random files with zeroes because of an unclean shutdown is still defined as correct behavior in

Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
For anyone who cares about my saga so-far ;-) ... I got physical access to the unit this morning and setup the drives as 15 RAID-0 Logical drives and booted up Linux, and it then attached all the drives in the usual way. And I can see all 15 drives. So the down-side is that I can't use any sort

RE: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-17 Thread Patrick_Boyd
To: linux-poweredge-Lists; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems.. For anyone who cares about my saga so-far ;-) ... I got physical access to the unit this morning and setup the drives as 15 RAID-0 Logical drives and booted up Linux, and it then attached all the drives

Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Moise
On 10/17/06, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, it's currently in a RAID-1 configuration (which I used for some initial soaktests) and seems to be just fine: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md9 6.8T 33M 6.7T 1% /mnt Incidentally,

Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-17 Thread Greg Dickie
Never lost an XFS filesystem completely. Can't say the same about ext3. just my 2 cents, Greg On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 13:58 -0400, Andrew Moise wrote: On 10/17/06, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, it's currently in a RAID-1 configuration (which I used for some initial

Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Andrew Moise wrote: On 10/17/06, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, it's currently in a RAID-1 configuration (which I used for some initial soaktests) and seems to be just fine: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md9

Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Greg Dickie wrote: Never lost an XFS filesystem completely. Can't say the same about ext3. Whereas I have exactly the reverse of the problem... Never lost an ext2/3, but had a few XFSs trashed when I played with it a couple of years ago... My 2 euros, Gordon - To

Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Moise
On 10/17/06, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had problems with XFS, but that was about 2 years ago, so things might have improved by then. Well, filling some random files with zeroes because of an unclean shutdown is still defined as correct behavior in XFS. That hasn't