, it hurts
use lynx/wget/curl/lftp
Yes, *please* *please* *please*
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er to that directory (pedantic, yes, but still)
oh, and "move any directory called linux to something else" seems to
miss the possibility of a symlink, where renaming the symlink would
be kind of pointless. Whether tar would just kill the symlink at
extract time anyway is worth a check.
, and as such it is the
correct answer to this thread.
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le to
get in and around them easily...
FAT32 appears to be the dominate cross-OS filesystem of choice,
combining long-filename support with native read-write capability
in Linux, 95/98, NT/2000
James
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, but mine is:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu/
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James Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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s degraded. You'll want to raidhotremove the sdb1 and
raidhotadd a new partition (possibly sdb1 after that drive gets replaced,
depending on your controller and other factors) and it'll rebuild onto
the new drive.
James
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). Using Disk Druid,
it's pretty straightforward to make a couple of partitions and "make
raid device", so you should be ok.
The steps to reverse a bootable raid onto an existing system are a bit
tedious, but covered in the Boot+Root RAID Howto and Software RAID Howto,
both at linuxdoc.org
and get some C8-H10-N4-O2
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[Fredrik Lindström]
I've been searching for a RAID howto or something like that
What I'm after is the software raid in linux
Go to http://www.linuxdoc.org
Under HOWTOs, look for "Software RAID"
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
James
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[Roman Seibel]
comp:~/ # mkraid /etc/raidtab
mkraid version 0.36.4
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
Specifically, the "requirements" section 1.2
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.2
HTH,
James
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er the "method 2" (failed-disk) steps to get the mirrored/striped
raid10's up and running, you'll need to change these by "adding 10" to
each (md11, md10, md14, md12, md13) so you're using the raid10 devices
and not an underlying raid0 device.
HTH, HAND
James
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that didn't have a proper /dev entry. the fdisk -l probably
only needed /dev/hda to be valid, but for the mkraid to succeed
/dev/hda7 will need to be valid (3,7). Not likely, but that's the
only time I saw it.
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tools and
accompanying kernel patch to the ...2.2x...series kernels".
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
It would be nice if the Root-RAID-HOWTO desc. included a link
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PGP signature
[Sandro Dentella]
i wanted to browse the mailing -list archive before bothering jou w/ my
problems but I coudn't find any: where are they?
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu/
Also, read the HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
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James
[blair christensen]
hello,
rh 6.2 on a dell poweredge 4400 box. it was running 2.2.14-5 with a
raid 0 array. i upgraded the kernel to 2.2.16 and i am now having
problems with the raid device (/dev/md0).
You didn't patch your 2.2.16 (www.redhat.com/~mingo/raid-patches)
when i try to
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I find that my RAID5 array is just too slow for my DB application. I
have a large number of DB files on this array. I would like to
convert to RAID0, and I can back up my files, but I was wondering if
there is a way to convert without reformatting?
Not currently,
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Yes, I know that. Unfortunately, I'm working on an extremely
insert-heavy application (over 100 million records per day). I would
really like ReiserFS (due to the large file size as well as for the
journaling). I don't see how RAID5 can meet my needs.
FWIW, ReiserFS
[Henry J. Cobb]
but if you've got a journaling filesystem, wouldn't you want to expose the
raw disks to it so it can choose to put the journals on different disks
than the files?
Funny, since sct/ext3 is the only one that appears to be pushing to keep
alive the possibility of journaling to
[Gregory Leblanc]
Is there any chance of keeping track of these with software RAID?
AFAIK, sct's patch to give sar-like data out of /proc/partitions gives
all of the above stats and more... neat patch :) The user-space tool
should be in the same dir. And, FWIW, I get asked about how people
[m.allan noah]
The howto says try mkraid --force. With a 2 drive (2/4) will I lose
everything.
why do you want to make a two drive raid5? that makes no sense. use raid1.
If you *read* his message you'll notice that he has 4 drives in the
array and lost 2 of them (2 still active). :)
[Jochen Haeberle]
does not recreate automatically... The problem mentioned striking me
most is "md0 has overlapping physical units with md2"... this does
not sound very good to me...
That's informative about resync operations. It is not an error.
May we run fsck on the md devices???
sure,
[Gregory Leblanc]
[root@bod tiobench-0.3.1]# ./tiobench.pl --dir /raid5
No size specified, using 200 MB
Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/sec
Try making the size at least double that of ram.
Actually, I do exactly that, clamping at 200MB and 2000MB currently.
[Gregory Leblanc]
Sounds good, James, but Darren said that his machine had 256MB of ram. I
wouldn't have mentioned it, except that it wasn't using enough, I think.
it tries to stat /proc/kcore currently. no procfs and it'll fail to
get a good number... I've thought about other approaches,
[Peter Hircock]
d) raidhotadd /dev/md2 /dev/hdc3
Don't have raidhot add.
raidhotadd is a symlink to raidstart that gets created when you do
the "make install". Might wanna check you've done that and then
check that the /sbin directory is in your path (or wherever you
installed the raidtools)
[Wishart, Aaron M. (James Tower)]
I have a raid5 file system consisting of 8, 9-gig quantum scsi drives (scsi
id 0-6, 8). The drive with the scsi id of 1 failed. I replaced the drive
and ran "raidhotadd /dev/scb /dev/md0" It appeared to run so I left for the
weekend. When I came in this
[Slip]
I'm wondering if anyone has run into a distribution of linux that
has software raid-util's pre-packaged into it, or available in a third
party package. I'v been trying to setup software raid with three 2.1G
SCSI drives for quite a while now and am simply looking for an
[Jieming Wang]
autorun ...
considering sdb1 ...
adding sdb1 ...
adding sda1 ...
created md0
bindsda1,1
bindsdb1,2
running: sdb1sda1
now!
sdb1's event counter: 000a
sda1's event counter: 000a
Looks like a couple of partitions with type fd, looking great for
autostart by the
[Gregory Leblanc]
I started seeing this when I blew away my RAID0 arrays and put RAID1 arrays
on my home machine. I suspect that this is cause by RedHat putting
something in the initscripts to start the RAID arrays AND the RAID slices
being set to type fd (RAID autodetect), but I haven't
[Ion Badulescu]
In article
cs.lists.linux-raid/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you
wrote:
I am having trouble using Linux RAID on a Sun Ultra1 running
2.2.15.
You need an additional patch, just plain vanilla 2.2.15 + raid-0.90 won't
do on a sparc. Red Hat have it in their 2.2.14-12 source rpm,
[Matthew Burke]
e2fsck 1.18, 11-nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
trying to open /dev/md1
Could this be a zero-length partition?
/dev/md1 is not mounted, but it is properly set up in /etc/raidtab
raidstart
[Matthew Burke]
On Sun, 28 May 2000, James Manning wrote:
[Matthew Burke]
e2fsck 1.18, 11-nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
trying to open /dev/md1
Could this be a zero-length partition?
mdstat
[Marco Shaw]
The 2.4 kernel tree itself will not, but Linux distributions will. RedHat
has been patching their products since 6.1, so I'm thinking SuSE isn't far
behind.
Incorrect. As of 2.3.99-pre8, the merge is (mostly) done, with just a
few straglers left to get cleaned up. Once my
[Harry Zink]
Doing fdisk /dev/hdf works just fine.
Doing fdisk /dev/hdg or /dev/hdk results in the old 'unable to open
hdj/hdk'
ls -l /dev/hd[gk]* ... you make need a later MAKEDEV (or edit yours)
to create all the necessary files
Alright, try turning off the RAID again ...
[Harry Zink]
Not sure what this will help, except confirm again that these volumes aren't
accessible, which was my question to start with.
question is "why?", answer is "no appropriate /dev entries"
[root@gate src]# ls -l /dev/hdj1
ls: /dev/hdj1: No such file or directory
[root@gate src]#
[Harry Zink]
While I appreciate the patch/diff provided by James Manning, I am extremely
weary of applying anything to a system that I don't fully understand -
particularly if it is suffixed by "Who knows..." (shiver).
I hadn't had a chance to test it... this one (attached) wo
[Harry Zink]
autorun ...
considering hdh1 ...
adding hdh1 ...
adding hdg1 ...
created md0
so hdh and hdg certainly both have partitions and bothare set to type fd
fdisk to /dev/hdl would seem to be failing because there is no hdl device
if you're trying to "free" hdg and/or hdh, fdisk
[Tommy]
When reading through this, my first impulse is to say that /dev/hdl isn't
correct. When I recently built a raid5 using 3 promise cards, I found
that in spite of the kernel detecting hdk hdm and hdo, these devices were
NOT built in /dev. In fact, I had to dig into the ide header file
[Harry Zink]
on 5/10/00 2:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You probably need to do a 'raidstop' on md0. Then, maybe you can
fdisk it?
Been there, done that.
Makes no difference. It just very persistently holds on to these drives.
Are you claiming that /proc/mdstat
[Harry Zink]
[root@gate Backup]# raidstop /dev/md0
/dev/md0: Device or resource busy
(This is normal, the fs is shared by atalk. I disable atalk)
[root@gate Backup]# raidstop /dev/md0
/dev/md0: Device or resource busy
(Now this is no longer normal. No services or anything else is
[Dave Meythaler]
I have looked through the Software RAID howto, the Bootable RAID howto, the
docs that come with raidtools 0.90 and the man pages and I haven't been able
to find any way to delete a raid device once it has been created.
since a raid device is just a virtual block device over
[Ian Morgan]
I can raidhotremove the (simulated-)faulty disk, and then physically remove
it. Next, I put the disk back in physically. I then want to run raidhotadd to
add the disk back into the array and begin reconstruction.
Problem is, when I run raidhotadd, the system totally locks up
[Martin Munt]
Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0905
You can avoid the lilo.conf tricks and just use a normal one (avoiding
partition=, disk=, etc) if you used a lilo patch with the raid1 support
(lilo.raid1) written by Doug Ledford (thanks Doug!). This list's archives
have it, or
[Jason Lin]
After my raid-1 is up and running I shutdown the
machine and took out one hard disk.(the one without
Linux installed.) Just to see how it behaves.
During reboot it drops to single user mode due to RAID
device error.
"raidstart /dev/md0"
raidstart? eww :)
modprobe: can't
[Seth Vidal]
I did some tests comparing a k6-2 500 vs a celeron 400 - on a raid5
system - found some interesting results
Raid5 write performance of the celeron is almost 50% better than the k6-2.
Can you report the xor calibration results when booting them?
Is this b/c of mmx or b/c of
[Bill BAO]
is there anybody doing the parity generation by using the
drive XOR cmd (XDWRITE, XDREAD, XDPWRITE) ?
we will start this kind of work in Linux raid,
want to know anybody else is also doing the same thing.
we're looking for cooperation.
When I last reviewed FC-AL, I have to
Summary: raid5_error needs to handle the first scsi error from a device and
do the necessary action, but silently return on subsequent failures.
- 3 h/w raid0's in a s/w raid5
- initial resync isn't finished (not important)
- scsi error passed up takes out one of the devices
bug
Ok, normally I'd not bother with this kind of message, but Brian (Haymore)
has been both nice and helpful in my experience, so I'm going to do a
little sticking up for him since he's being uselessly railed on :)
Note that I specifically hate flaming that doesn't get taken off-list,
but as I
[Werner Reisberger]
I am wondering if there is a possibility to use RAID 0 and RAID 1 together,
i. e. mirroring two RAID 0 devices?
Absolutely. The most common setup appears to be:
drives 1+2: md0 (raid0)
drives 3+4: md1 (raid0)
md0+md1:md2 (raid1)
Two general questions:
- Are there
[Jason Lin]
After installing RedHat6.1 on /dev/hda
I added 2nd hard disk, /dev/hdc, which has same
capacity as /dev/hda.
Then a RAID1 device, /dev/md0, was created with
/dev/hda2 and /dev/hdc2 as the constituent partitions.
(/dev/hda2 contains data for /home)
Is there a way to control
[David Konerding]
4 drives 36gig Ultra 2 SCSI (or LVD? or Ultra 3?) (3 active drives 1 hot
spare)
Make sure to consider 4-drive raid1 as well
From poking around the kernel, and reading some stuff on web sites, and
visiting the vendor websites, it seems like the less expensive cards
[Marc Haber]
|autorun ...
|considering sde7 ...
|adding sde7 ...
|adding sdd7 ...
|adding sdc7 ...
|adding sdb7 ...
|adding sda7 ...
|created md0
Ok, maybe I'm on crack and need to lay off the pipe a little while, but
it appears that sdf7 doesn't have a partition type of "fd" and as such
[flag]
And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel
is RAID patched: 2.2.14)
[flag@Luxor flag]$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
allan's
[Michael T. Babcock]
And where can I find err # 22 ... or is it not defined yet?
defined in asm/errno.h as EINVAL
James
[Wolfram Lassnig]
I´m using a SuSE 6.3, Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
is it the wrong kernel patch (SuSE does not respond on my queries)
SuSE doesn't patch their kernels
Excellent software raid howto:
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
kernel 2.2.14
Patches attached:
#1: allan noah's suggestion (small warning, 5 seconds, that's it)
#2: untested "it compiles" patch for warning file (with Seth's 2 week
recommendation on time-span)
[ Saturday, March 18, 2000 ] m. allan noah wrote:
think about it! rm by default does not -i!
true,
[ Wednesday, March 15, 2000 ] root wrote:
mkraid --**-force /dev/md0
/me attempts to get the Stupid Idea Of The Month award
Motivation: trying to keep the Sekret Flag a secret is a failed effort
(the number of linux-raid archives, esp. those that are searchable, make
this a given), and a
[ Tuesday, March 14, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
Just FYI, a run on a Netfinity 5000 with a ServeRAID card and two IBM 8G
LVD disks plugged into a backplane. I can dig up the model if it makes
things more meaningful. mem=16M, runlevel 1, numruns 5.. you know the
drill. AFAICS to me
[ Monday, March 13, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote:
What version of the RAIDtools and kernel drivers does the old
Software-RAID-HOWTO apply to? I need to make sure I've got it right.
The coded checks were 0.90, but the latest to ever show up was
0.50beta3 (kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/)
/bin/perl -w
#Author: James Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of
# the GNU General Public License, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
#
#Description:
# Perl wrapper for calling tiobench.pl and displaying results
[ Saturday, March 11, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote:
I've got a dual proc SS20 that I'm using at my toy here. I'm running
tiobench/tiotest on this machine to test out the raw performance of these
disks, but I was sort of wondering what that (CPU%) number means on an SMP
machine. Does it
[ Thursday, March 9, 2000 ] Benny HO wrote:
I am trying to setup a linear mode to expand my drive.
I did exactly what is said in the How-to doc.
Which one? The LDP one is (checking as I write this) is outdated.
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
Then I run " mkraid /dev/md0"
[ Thursday, March 9, 2000 ] Frank Joerdens wrote:
After trying to apply raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 to a 2.2.13 kernel
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig.rej
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c.rej
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c.rej
/usr/src/linux/include/asm-ppc/md.h.rej
[ Thursday, March 9, 2000 ] Arthur Erhardt wrote:
I just tried to patch a Linux 2.2.14 kernel
For 2.2.14 apply http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.14-B1
[ Tuesday, March 7, 2000 ] Matthew Clark wrote:
Hey guys.. I just installed and ran iozone.. neat tool..
When the file size reaches 32Mb, I see a huge drop from around 129Mb/sec
(obviously caching effects) right down to 10Mb/sec... then at 64Mb it drops
to between 2.5 and 6.7 Mb/sec
[ Monday, March 6, 2000 ] Holger Kiehl wrote:
node2: 2 x PII-350 128MB with 5 disks used as one single
SW-Raid5, kernel 2.2.14 + mingos patch
could you try 2 things?
1) UP kernel
2) kernel 2.3.30 (SMP and then UP if still locks)
Is it a problem that /dev/nd1
[ Sunday, March 5, 2000 ] Slip wrote:
And suggestions greatly appreciated!
You may want to read the new Software-RAID howto at
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
Specifically section 1.2 "Requirements"
Note that the current, supported raid uses raidtools-0.90 (it's in the
[ Saturday, March 4, 2000 ] Martin Schulze wrote:
I wonder why I can't get RAID0 aka striping work with 2.2.13. It only
runs with 2.0.36.
old-style raid is no longer supported. You may wish to read the
s/w raid howto at http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
specifically, the
[ Saturday, March 4, 2000 ] Steve wrote:
request_module[md-personality-3]: Root fs not mounted
it would appear that you'd need to build-in the raid level support instead
of making it a module. Main problem being that since root's not mounted
(chicken-and-egg in this case), you have nowhere to
[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] bug1 wrote:
there are a few benchmark progs arround
bonnie:old benchmark program
bonnie++ :updated bonnie to reflect modern hardware
tiotest :looks promising, still being developed
iozone :havent tried this, but www.iozone.org shows it can
[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] Steve Terrell wrote:
I have been using raid1 0.090-5 (kernel 2.2.14 w/ raid patch) on a
couple of RedHat 6.1 boxes for several weeks with good results.
Naturally, when I installed it on a production system, I ran into
problems. Raid1 arrays work fine - after the
[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] Sander Flobbe wrote:
In my kernel I did only include the module for raid-1. Then, when I try
to create a raid-5 system it doesn't work:
Okay, okay, my fault... but a tiny little cute hint about my mistake
from mkraid would be nice, wouldn't it? :*)
also nice
[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] Ricky Beam wrote:
As I understand it, the "stride" will only make a real difference for
fsck by ordering data so it's (more) evenly spread over the array. This
sounds correct and even "looks" correct when observing the array -- but
I've never bothered to look at
[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] Karl Czajkowski wrote:
I upgraded the kernel to 2.3.47, 48, and 49 and got a performance
problem where "time cat file ... /dev/null" for a 300 MB file shows
some scaling, but for a 600 MB file the throughput is almost identical to
a single disk.
how much memory in
[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] Karl Czajkowski wrote:
how much memory in the machine?
256 MB
dual 550 MHz pentium III
I did read other larger-than-memory files in between tests to try and
avoid caching effects.
barely larger than memory doesn't count.
It's easily argued that 2x memory
[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] James Manning wrote:
[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] Sander Flobbe wrote:
In my kernel I did only include the module for raid-1. Then, when I try
to create a raid-5 system it doesn't work:
Okay, okay, my fault... but a tiny little cute hint about my mistake
from
[ Thursday, March 2, 2000 ] Chris Mauritz wrote:
Has anyone done any benchmarks with the Mylex ExtremeRAID 1100? I'm
planning on getting one of the 3 channel ones with 64mb cache. Initially,
it will be delivered on a dual PIII-750mhz machine with NT, but I'd like to
repurpose this as a
[ Thursday, March 2, 2000 ] Derek Shaw wrote:
I've re-compiled the kernel to have md support at RAID-1 included in
ftp.fi.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/
fetch the patch (raid0145) for kernel 2.2.11 and apply it to your
kernel source (since you said 2.2.13) and ignore rejects
If you
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Hector Herrera wrote:
Has anyone on this list used any of Raidzone's products?
http://www.raidzone.com/
Already brought up fairly recently... check some archives such as
mail-archive.com or similar
James
[ Wednesday, March 1, 2000 ] Brian Kress wrote:
Either use your current kernel with that patch or get 2.2.14
and grab the patch at http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/raid.
Or for a working url :)
http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.14-B1
James
[ Wednesday, March 1, 2000 ] Ricky Beam wrote:
---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
256 5451 78.7 10035 8.5 4000
[ Wednesday, March 1, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
I've seen a lot of variation on various runs of tiotest using the same
setup - even in single-user mode. Is this expected, and do you know why it
happens? Is it just the effect of the buffer cache, or do we avoid using
it?
we don't
[ Wednesday, March 1, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, James Manning wrote:
per-char doesn't matter (one of the reasons I hate ppl using bonnie,
besides the single-threaded-ness). Considering the queueing and scat/gat
Why not? Because usual disk operations
[ Wednesday, March 1, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
James, when run tiotest with a size too small for the number of threads
don't do that.
(what'd be the purpose?)
I'll add a bondary check later... but really, I'm not going to get into the
habit of checking all possible inputs against
Wed Feb 16 10:25:16 2000
+++ tiotest-0.24.mmap/ChangeLog Thu Mar 2 02:34:14 2000
@@ -88,3 +88,8 @@
* 0.24 - prompt to STDERR and not printing ^H s any more
- minor tiobench.pl cleanup by James
+
+2000-03-02 James Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+
+ * 0.25 - add
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Peter Pregler wrote:
All is fine but during reconstruction I get a few syslog-messages that I
simply cannot believe are true. The message in question are:
Feb 12 11:31:52 kludge kernel: md: serializing
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
I've got the simple scripts I used to do the benchmarks here and if
somebody wants to have a look, feel free.
go ahead and mail them to the list as attachments. Might make for
more scripts to shove into tiotest/funnyscripts/
James
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
James, I've run a whole truckload of benchmarks on raid1 with varying
chunksizes on three different kernels, and on a plain disk. I'm about to
publish some of the stuff, but I'm wondering very hard why is it that the
readbalancing
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
/proc/rd/ relevant information:
* DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 *
Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring Mylex DAC960PG PCI RAID Controller
Firmware Version:
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Brian Lavender wrote:
mammoth:/# mkraid /dev/md0
unrecognized option peristent-superblock
Try using a spell checker :)
James
[ Monday, February 28, 2000 ] Brian Lavender wrote:
The software-RAID Howto is very _unclear_.
Did you read this one? The LDP one is ancient (long story)
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
[ Sunday, February 27, 2000 ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
e2fsk -f -b 32768 /dev/md0 to repair using the superblocks
wouldn't this be pointing the fsck at a non-superblock? Perhaps not,
but in my exp. superblocks are typically on 2**n+1
Did you have some indication your primary superblock was
[ Friday, February 25, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote:
Then, how much slower (not faster I guess :) Smart Array 221 would be
than SW-RAID (single P3-500)? And can I do all SA-221 maintaining from
Linux or do I need to reboot to dos? New official home
[ Friday, February 25, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote:
where's tiobench?
It's the perl script front-end part of tiotest
http://www.icon.fi/~mak/tiotest/
(There's also some front-end redirector that I can't find right now)
James
[ Friday, February 25, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote:
Does anybody have a nice script to run tiobench through it's paces, and
collect results? I'm going to try that SPARC patch tonight, and run RAID5
through it's paces. I suppose I'll need to find a nice way to keep the
processors busy,
[ Friday, February 25, 2000 ] Michael wrote:
After re-compiling the kernel (ver. 2.2.12), I am unable to install my
module level driver by "insmod driver.o". Insmod gives lots
of "unresolved
symbols" errors... How to fix this?
Did you recompile the modules after remaking
Considering the RAID merge in progress and current LDP state (pointing
to Linas' old howto), this would seem to be a wise change
--- linux-2.3.47-3/Documentation/Configure.help Wed Feb 16 23:34:06 2000
+++ linux-2.3.47-3/Documentation/Configure.help.new Thu Feb 17 22:44:00 2000
@@ -1273,7
[ Monday, February 14, 2000 ] Jens Klaas wrote:
[ Saturday, February 12, 2000 ] David Cooley wrote:
As the error message points out, you need to type "mkraid --[snip]
/dev/md0"
1) as the error message also points out, that option is NOT to be sent
in email :) privately?
[ Sunday, February 13, 2000 ] James Manning wrote:
I'm going to try adding a --numruns flag for tiobench so we can have an
automated facility for averaging over a number of runs. I believe the
dip at 4 threads is real, but it's worth adding anyway :)
It'll be part of tiotest 0.23
[ Saturday, February 12, 2000 ] Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote:
So, I finally found time to try the new RAID stuff and speed
increased :)
Excellent.
I also tried RAID1 with and without the read-balancing patch:
The filesystem was always made with a simple "mke2fs dev":
-Rstripe= could be
[ Saturday, February 12, 2000 ] Joakim Ahlen wrote:
When i checked my logs this morning, all drives of the raid5-set had been
kicked out ([] in /proc/mdstat), and i traced it to these events in
syslog:
A now-found-and-fixed bug that should be gone as of a completed 2.3 merge
(no mention
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