Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-11-21 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2007/10/27, Rui Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Ciro, Try to think of a RAID Array as a single partition. You put a filesystem on top of a partition or a RAID Array. I know it's logically a partition/disk, but the important bit there is logically, a real partition won't melt down or break into

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-11-21 Thread Philippe Landau
Ciro Iriarte wrote: I assume that would look really nasty on a big raid5... A UPS battery costs less then 80 euro. It gives your computer 3 minutes to shut down properly. Kind regards Philippe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-26 at 23:04 -0300, Ciro Iriarte wrote: It should. It might, actually: no filesystem likes a power outage, and no raid will protect you from that. I expect it to survive in the sense that i don't have to reinit the raid

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-27 Thread Rui Santos
Ciro Iriarte wrote: 2007/10/26, Greg Freemyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/25/07, Ciro Iriarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody has experience with linux Raid5 and power outages?, i currently have two 250GB disks in a RAID1 array in my main workstation. When there's any power outage the array is

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-27 Thread Per Jessen
Ciro Iriarte wrote: 2007/10/26, Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ciro Iriarte wrote: Now i would like to add 4 500GB disks in a secondary array with raid5 but i'm afraid i would lose the array if there's any outage (have to mention a UPS in my letter to Santa) Anybody knows if the

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-27 Thread Per Jessen
Ciro Iriarte wrote: I expect it to survive in the sense that i don't have to reinit the raid losing all the data... A filesysten check procedure requires a working RAID... Working = fully operational or operating in degraded mode, i.e. being rebuilt or with one dead disk. /Per Jessen,

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-26 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-26 at 00:16 -0300, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Anybody has experience with linux Raid5 and power outages?, i currently have two 250GB disks in a RAID1 array in my main workstation. When there's any power outage the array is rebuilt but

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-26 Thread Per Jessen
Ciro Iriarte wrote: Now i would like to add 4 500GB disks in a secondary array with raid5 but i'm afraid i would lose the array if there's any outage (have to mention a UPS in my letter to Santa) Anybody knows if the raid5 (md) would survive this scenario? A RAID5 will survive a

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-26 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 10/25/07, Ciro Iriarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody has experience with linux Raid5 and power outages?, i currently have two 250GB disks in a RAID1 array in my main workstation. When there's any power outage the array is rebuilt but given it's a mirror it's not a major issue. Now i

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-26 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2007/10/26, Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ciro Iriarte wrote: Now i would like to add 4 500GB disks in a secondary array with raid5 but i'm afraid i would lose the array if there's any outage (have to mention a UPS in my letter to Santa) Anybody knows if the raid5 (md) would

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-26 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2007/10/26, Greg Freemyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/25/07, Ciro Iriarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody has experience with linux Raid5 and power outages?, i currently have two 250GB disks in a RAID1 array in my main workstation. When there's any power outage the array is rebuilt but

Re: [opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-26 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2007/10/26, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-26 at 00:16 -0300, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Anybody has experience with linux Raid5 and power outages?, i currently have two 250GB disks in a RAID1 array in my main workstation. When

[opensuse] RAID5 Power outages

2007-10-25 Thread Ciro Iriarte
Anybody has experience with linux Raid5 and power outages?, i currently have two 250GB disks in a RAID1 array in my main workstation. When there's any power outage the array is rebuilt but given it's a mirror it's not a major issue. Now i would like to add 4 500GB disks in a secondary array with