Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-07 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Andrea Arcangeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 7 August 2000 16:50: On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Does this patch allow raid5 over raid0? That'd be really wonderful... Despite it's useful nor not, which 2.?.x? The latest if possible, but the one your patch applies to if I have

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-06 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Andrea Arcangeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 3 August 2000 19:55: On Aug 2, 7:12pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: } Subject: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM This patch cleanups the new raid code so that we have a chance that LVM on top of RAID will keep working. It's untested at the moment.

RE: speed and scaling

2000-07-10 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I'd try an alpha machine, with 66MHz-64bit PCI bus, and interleaved memory access, to improve memory bandwidth. It costs around $1 with 512MB of RAM, see SWT (or STW) or Microway. This cost is small compared to the disks. I've never had trouble with adaptec cards, if you terminate things

autostart with raid5 over raid0?

2000-06-21 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Hi all, I've been using raid5 with auto-detection for over a year without problems. Everything including the root fs is on raid5, the machine boots from floppy. I now want to rearrange the disks in raid0 arrays, and make a raid5 of these. Will auto-detection/autostart work in this case? It

Re: Autostart failing.

1999-08-19 Thread Carlos Carvalho
C. R. Oldham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 19 August 1999 09:53: In another reply I got there was an indication that I might need to resize the filesystem on /dev/md0 after I do this since the persistent superblocks hide at the end of the /dev/md0 partition, correct? How much do I need to

Re: please help me to recover from this raid 5 prop

1999-07-14 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Markus Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 July 1999 19:50: ... Jul 14 19:17:42 raid kernel: sdd1's event counter: 0003 Jul 14 19:17:42 raid kernel: sde1's event counter: 0004 Jul 14 19:17:42 raid kernel: sdc1's event counter: 0005 Jul 14 19:17:42 raid kernel: sdb1's event

RE: controller failure hosed raid5 array :-(

1999-06-14 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Bruno Prior ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 June 1999 16:49: I don't see an affordable solution to this. One can always use a single controller, but with decent disks it'll be saturated. And having a single disk per controller will run out of slots. For resilience to controller failure,

controller failure hosed raid5 array :-(

1999-06-11 Thread Carlos Carvalho
It was noticed in this list a few days ago that a SCSI controller failure could blow up a raid array if there's more than one disk connected to it. Well, it got me :-( :-( Here's the type of problem: kernel: (scsi2:0:0:0) Parity error during Message-In phase. kernel: scsi : aborting command due

Re: Problems with raid1 - system unusable after drive failure

1999-06-08 Thread Carlos Carvalho
David Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 8 June 1999 09:15: Raid1 root worked prefectly for me until I did a test:-) Have you tested your raid5? Not explicitly removing one of the disks, because I can't do this with a live system. I don't have special cases for this, and I'm not going to

Re: Mirroring SWAP: how hard would it be?

1999-06-07 Thread Carlos Carvalho
David Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 June 1999 17:52: I was just wondering how hard it would be to modify the kernel to write to two swap partitions at the same time? Swapping on raided partitions works with 2.2.6 for me.

Re: RAID-5 Recovery testing

1999-05-19 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Chris R. Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 May 1999 21:08: We've experienced a few odd anomalies during testing our IDE RAID-5 array ( 6 x 16gb =80g). We started with a good running array and did an e2fsck to ensure its integrity... We simulated a drive failure by disconnecting a

big root filesystem X fsck

1999-04-16 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I'm about to reorganize our raid array, and I\m thinking of building a big root filesystem containing essentially the usual root stuff plus /usr. The idea is to minimize the number of partitions to avoid seek on the disks. It's often said that the root filesystem should be as small as possible

showstopper FIXED Re: kernel panic hm ??

1998-12-21 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I'm VERY happy to say that Ingo's one-liner did fix the panics. Like others, I'd have to step back to the previous version if the bug persisted. Everything is working fine now. I'm just waiting for the fix that will make the resync threads disappear :-)

kernel panic hm ??

1998-12-18 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Trying this list first, if it's not raid-related I'll go to linux-kernel... Our raid5 server locked again, with the message "kernel panic hm ??" displayed 3 times on the console. This is the second time. Interestingly, it locked roughly at the same time: 6:24 and 6:30. This suggests some cron

No Subject

1998-12-16 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Javier Gonzalez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 December 1998 14:16: The utility for restore or change disks is Raid ARRAY is raidhotadd, but where is it?? It isn't in raidtools. Sure it is. It's a symlink to raidstart. Make install does it.