Re: [CentOS] RAID-1 mdadm software raid and kernel crashing on hdd failure

2010-03-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:14:18AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Robert Heller wrote: I suspect that this is a simular case to what I did: I have a server with 4 drives. I have several (small) RAID1 partitions (/boot, /, /usr, /var, etc.) with 4 mirrors and one large RAID5 with three

Re: [CentOS] RAID-1 mdadm software raid and kernel crashing on hdd failure

2010-03-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:14:18AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Yup. 8 way RAID1 for the OS, 8 way RAID6 for the data. I was hoping when I setup the 8-way RAID1 for the OS that I would get really good read speeds since md is supposed to stripe reads from RAID1, but

Re: [CentOS] RAID-1 mdadm software raid and kernel crashing on hdd failure

2010-03-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:01:08 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:14:18AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Yup. 8 way RAID1 for the OS, 8 way RAID6 for the data. I was hoping when I setup the 8-way RAID1 for the OS that

Re: [CentOS] RAID-1 mdadm software raid and kernel crashing on hdd failure

2010-03-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:01:08AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:14:18AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Yup. 8 way RAID1 for the OS, 8 way RAID6 for the data. I was hoping when I setup the 8-way RAID1 for the OS that I would get really

Re: [CentOS] RAID-1 mdadm software raid and kernel crashing on hdd failure

2010-03-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:14:18AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Robert Heller wrote: I suspect that this is a simular case to what I did: I have a server with 4 drives. I have several (small) RAID1 partitions (/boot, /, /usr, /var, etc.) with 4 mirrors and one large