Booting Wheezy Install on Software Raid 6

2013-04-15 Thread deb...@paulscrap.com
Hi Folks, I'm in the process of assembling a storage system, and am running into an issue while testing the setup in a VM. The setup has 6 three terabyte harddrives that I'd like to put in RAID 6 (Eventually more will be added, expanding the array). I'd like everything to be on

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-15 Thread deb...@paulscrap.com
On 04/15/2013 02:44 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 23:54:28 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 4/10/2013 12:32 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: It's not necessary to ask on linux-raid, and as you have not yet done so, I'll clarify this now: Both the md RAID1 and RAID10 personalities

Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-23 Thread deb...@paulscrap.com
Hi Folks, Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is that the Pentium M's are just about the only modern(ish) processor without

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-23 Thread deb...@paulscrap.com
On 02/23/2013 02:15 PM, Dom wrote: On 23/02/13 18:36, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: I think the pae bit will only be used by CPUs that support it, otherwise it will be ignored and run normally. Only some really old CPUs (like some others I do run) won't be supported. See, that's