Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

RedShift wrote: Glenn Matthys >>> As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install CentOS >>> without any installer: >>> >>> >>> # First, setup your disks to your liking. You can use whatever you want >>> here, >> ... snip ... >>> (PS: I've also attached the documentati

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

on 3-26-2009 12:50 PM D Tucny spake the following: > 2009/3/27 RedShift > > > Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > RedShift wrote: > > ... > >> Not only do you > >> have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 > >> arrays will take plac

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

D Tucny wrote: > > > ... > >> Not only do you > >> have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 > >> arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access > during > >> reconstruction. > > > > Is this right? > > > > Wh

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009/3/27 RedShift > Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > RedShift wrote: > > ... > >> Not only do you > >> have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 > >> arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during > >> reconstruction. > > > > Is this right? > > > > When I h

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Mogens Kjaer wrote: > RedShift wrote: > ... >> Not only do you >> have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 >> arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during >> reconstruction. > > Is this right? > > When I have replaced a disk and added several pa

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

on 3-26-2009 6:58 AM Mogens Kjaer spake the following: > RedShift wrote: > ... >> Not only do you >> have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 >> arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during >> reconstruction. > > Is this right? > > When I have r

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

At Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:44:34 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Ross Walker wrote: > > >> RedShift wrote: > >>> > >>> As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install > >>> CentOS > >>> without any installer: > >> > >> That looks useful. Do you have any hints about how to

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

RedShift wrote: ... > Not only do you > have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 > arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during > reconstruction. Is this right? When I have replaced a disk and added several partitions to an array, the rebuild is

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:42 PM, RedShift wrote: >> Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So >> instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both >> and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you take those t

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Ross Walker wrote: >> RedShift wrote: >>> >>> As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install >>> CentOS >>> without any installer: >> >> That looks useful. Do you have any hints about how to get the right >> drivers installed if you wanted to build a disk to be moved to a >> d

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:42 PM, RedShift wrote: > Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So > instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both > and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you take those two disks and put > them in o

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Phil Schaffner wrote: > RedShift wrote: >>> Another way to get CentOS on such a configuration would be to do >>> everything manually, thus installing the base system by creating the >>> necessary disk allocations and then rpm -i all the required packages >>> to get it to boot. (I've done this be

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > RedShift wrote: >> >> >> As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install >> CentOS >> without any installer: > > > That looks useful. Do you have any hints about how to get the right > drivers installed if you wanted to build

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

RedShift wrote: > RedShift wrote: >> Hello >> >> >> Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable >> arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical >> partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, >> you take those two disks and put them i

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

RedShift wrote: > > > As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install CentOS > without any installer: That looks useful. Do you have any hints about how to get the right drivers installed if you wanted to build a disk to be moved to a different machine? -- Les Mikesell

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

RedShift wrote: Hello Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you take those two disks and put them in one partitionable RAID 1 array (i

[CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Hello Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you take those two disks and put them in one partitionable RAID 1 array (in mdadm terms, "md