Grub vs Lilo

2006-07-26 Thread Lewis Shobbrook
Hi All, Wondering if anyone can comment on an easy way to get grub to update all components in a raid1 array. I have a raid1 /boot with a raid10 /root and have previously used lilo with the raid-extra-boot option to install to boot sectors of all component devices. With grub it appears that

Re: host based mirror distance in a fc-based SAN environment

2006-07-26 Thread David Greaves
Stefan Majer wrote: Hi, im curious if there are some numbers out up to which distance its possible to mirror (raid1) 2 FC-LUNs. We have 2 datacenters with a effective distance of 11km. The fabrics in one datacenter are connected to the fabrics in the other datacenter with 5 dark fibre both

Re: Grub vs Lilo

2006-07-26 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wondering if anyone can comment on an easy way to get grub to update all components in a raid1 array. I have a raid1 /boot with a raid10 /root and have previously used lilo with the raid-extra-boot option to install to boot sectors of all component devices. With grub

Re: Grub vs Lilo

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Tokarev
Jason Lunz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wondering if anyone can comment on an easy way to get grub to update all components in a raid1 array. I have a raid1 /boot with a raid10 /root and have previously used lilo with the raid-extra-boot option to install to boot sectors of all component

Re: Grub vs Lilo

2006-07-26 Thread Bernd Rieke
Michael Tokarev wrote on 26.07.2006 20:00: The thing with all this my RAID devices works, it is really simple! thing is: for too many people it indeed works, so they think it's good and correct way. But it works up to the actual failure, which, in most setups, isn't tested. But once

Re: Grub vs Lilo

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Tokarev
Bernd Rieke wrote: Michael Tokarev wrote on 26.07.2006 20:00: . . The thing with all this my RAID devices works, it is really simple! thing is: for too many people it indeed works, so they think it's good and correct way. But it works up to the actual failure, which, in most setups,

Re: host based mirror distance in a fc-based SAN environment

2006-07-26 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:58:09AM +0200, Stefan Majer wrote: Hi, im curious if there are some numbers out up to which distance its possible to mirror (raid1) 2 FC-LUNs. We have 2 datacenters with a effective distance of 11km. The fabrics in one datacenter are connected to the fabrics in the

Re: [PATCH] md: new bitmap sysfs interface

2006-07-26 Thread Mike Snitzer
On 7/25/06, Paul Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch (tested against 2.6.18-rc1-mm1) adds a new sysfs interface that allows the bitmap of an array to be dirtied. The interface is write-only, and is used as follows: echo 1000 /sys/block/md2/md/bitmap (dirty the bit for chunk 1000

ICH7R strip size

2006-07-26 Thread Jeff Woods
Howdy. I realize this list is more focused on Linux software RAID than proprietary RAID controllers, but I've been Googling and can't find an answer that I suspect someone on this list probably knows. If anyone can suggest a better forum for this question or someplace where the answer is

Re: [PATCH] md: new bitmap sysfs interface

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Clements
Mike Snitzer wrote: I tracked down the thread you referenced and these posts (by you) seems to summarize things well: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=16563016418w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=17515400864w=2 But for clarity's sake, could you elaborate on the

Re: [PATCH] md: new bitmap sysfs interface

2006-07-26 Thread Mike Snitzer
On 7/26/06, Paul Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Snitzer wrote: I tracked down the thread you referenced and these posts (by you) seems to summarize things well: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=16563016418w=2

Re: ICH7R strip size

2006-07-26 Thread Mark Hahn
My question: What are the chunk and usable storage sizes per stripe for four discs in RAID-0 on an ICH7R configured for a 128KB strip? raid0 always has 100% usable; configuring it is deciding how much concurrency you want. if your writes are 64K and you have 4 disks, your max concurrency