Re: Raid developers question

2000-07-27 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Art wrote: After pulling out one disk (system off line), it came back on line with the data intact... It started automatically the reconfiguration using the spare disk. The funny thing was, after reinserting the original disk it did not reconfigure it automatially. I

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday July 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you be a little more specific? Speed comparisons on disk access? Then you can't compare RAID with no RAID effectively. You could compare the speed of 2.2/2.4 RAID, and 2.2/2.4 no RAID, but comparisons across would seem to be

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote: If raid on 2.4 is fast than raid in 2.2, we say "great". If it is slower, we look at the no-raid numbers. If no-raid on 2.4 is slow than no-raid on 2.2, we say "oh dear, the disc subsystem is slower on 2.4", and point the finger appropriately. If

Re: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:12:47PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote: Given the code at the moment, I am highly confident that linear, raid0 and raid1 should be just as fast in 2.4 as in 2.2. There are some issues with raid5 that I am looking into. I don't know that they affect speed much,

Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation

2000-07-27 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello Since everyone is talking about disk benchmark and the results on different kernel version I would like to ask a question about this. I noticed when using bonnie that I could sometimes get very different results ( 20%) using the same kernel and disks only that the second test (slower one)

Re: LILO for RAID1

2000-07-27 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
* Ilia Baldine [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | set boot to a real bootable device (like /dev/sda) and root to the | md device. And whats when /dev/sda failed? In this case LILO not presents on /dev/sdb, hmm?

Re: LILO for RAID1

2000-07-27 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
* Gilles HANOTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | There is a patched version of LILO wich accept boot=/dev/md0 in | lilo.conf and will make each disk in the mirror bootable. LILO's maintainer wrote to me, that the patch added to the latest LILO, but the autoboot doesn't work. I get 0x80 or similair errors.

Re: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation

2000-07-27 Thread Corin Hartland-Swann
Holger, On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Holger Kiehl wrote: Will this not influence the performance a lot since the head of the disk has to walk all over the disk? Thus making comparisons practically useless since you never know the state of fragmentation? I think you've got it exactly right here.

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
-Original Message- From: Danilo Godec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:22 AM To: Neil Brown Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: raid and 2.4 kernels On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote: If raid on 2.4 is fast than raid in 2.2, we say "great". If

RE: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation

2000-07-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
-Original Message- From: Corin Hartland-Swann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 7:15 AM To: Holger Kiehl Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation Holger, On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Holger Kiehl wrote: Will this not

RE: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation

2000-07-27 Thread Corin Hartland-Swann
Gregory, On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote: 6) Use tiotest, NOT bonnie! Try multiple threads (I use 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 threads - this is perhaps excessive!) What size datasets are you using? I use 1G if I'm feeling like making absolutely sure it's fair, or

RE: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation

2000-07-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
-Original Message- From: Corin Hartland-Swann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 7:53 AM To: Gregory Leblanc Cc: Holger Kiehl; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation [snip] When I was comparing performance of RAID0+1 to

Re: Detaching mirrors with raidtools 0.9

2000-07-27 Thread m . allan noah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: G'day Folks, My apologies if this is RTFM or previously discussed on list (I have just joined). We have implemenetd mirroring using raidtools 0.9 on RedHat 6.2. It is working well, but we would like the ability to do the following to backup a Lotus Domino

No Subject

2000-07-27 Thread pyz
Greetings All, Apologies from the get-go for the newbie question - Are there any archives of this email to peruse before I start hurling my clueless questions at the list and get the longtime-vets all worked up? Thanks in advance! Max Pyziur BRAMA -

Please remove me from

2000-07-27 Thread Paramasivam Kartik
the list. I had sent an email earlier abt. this but I keep getting the emails. Could anyone kindly direct me to the person incharge of managing the mailing list? Thankyou. Kartik Paramasivam On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All, Apologies from the get-go for

can anyone mail me bonnie?

2000-07-27 Thread Abhishek Khaitan
hi! can anyone mail me tgz of bonnie or the web site from where it is available? Thanks Regards, Abhishek -Original Message- From: Corin Hartland-Swann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 7:53 AM To: Gregory Leblanc Cc: Holger Kiehl; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

no devices listed in mdstat

2000-07-27 Thread umshore4
Hi! I've applied the raid-0.90-2.2.16-A0 patch to a 2.2.16 kernel and compiled with multiple disk, autodetect, and raid1 support in kernel. When I boot from this kernel, everything appear to be fine, except that no devices (not even inactive ones) are listed in /proc/mdstat, although