[gentoo-user] Raid web page

2021-10-01 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid web page

2021-10-01 Thread antlists
On 01/10/2021 22:21, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.10.20 um 10:40 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 06.10.20 um 15:08 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: >> Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> I know the model: ICP5165BR >> >> https://ask.adaptec.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17414/~/support-for-sata-and-sas-disk-drives-with-a-size-of-2tb-or-greater >> >> says it

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.10.20 um 15:08 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > Stefan G. Weichinger: >> I know the model: ICP5165BR > > https://ask.adaptec.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17414/~/support-for-sata-and-sas-disk-drives-with-a-size-of-2tb-or-greater > > says it is supported up to 8TB drives using firmware v5.2.0 Buil

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 06.10.20 um 11:52 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > > Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> Am 05.10.20 um 21:32 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > > ... > >> What do you think, is 2 TB maybe too big for the controller? > > > 0a:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID > > > > This does

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread antlists
On 05/10/2020 17:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.10.20 um 17:19 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: So my issue seems to be: non-working arcconf doesn't let me "enable" that one drive. Some kind of progress. Searched for more and older releases of arcconf, found Version 1.2 that doesn't cras

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.10.20 um 11:52 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > Some guesses: > > https://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins#aacraid > says that it requires libstd++5 > > arcconf might fork and exec, one could try with strace and try to > see what happens > > one could, if the old suse dist. is available

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.10.20 um 11:52 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 05.10.20 um 21:32 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > ... >> What do you think, is 2 TB maybe too big for the controller? > 0a:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID > > This doesn't really tells us which controller it

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 05.10.20 um 16:38 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: ... > But no luck with any version of arcconf so far. Unpacked several zips, > tried 2 releases, 32 and 64 bits .. all crash. > > > Just a poke in the dark, does ldd report all libs found, as in: > > $ ldd /bin/ls > > l

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 05.10.20 um 21:32 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: ... > What do you think, is 2 TB maybe too big for the controller? >>> 0a:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID This doesn't really tells us which controller it is, try with lspci -s 0a:0e.0 -nn In the kernel source on

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 21:32 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > What if you put it on the 53c1030 card, can you do that, at least to > verify the disk ? I am 600kms away from that server and the people I could send to the basement there aren't very competent in these things. I am afraid that won't work out wel

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: ... > Searched for more and older releases of arcconf, found Version 1.2 that > doesn't crash here. > > This lets me view the physical device(s), but the new disk is marked as > "Failed". ... What if you put it on the 53c1030 card, can you do that, at least to verify the di

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 17:19 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > So my issue seems to be: non-working arcconf doesn't let me "enable" > that one drive. Some kind of progress. Searched for more and older releases of arcconf, found Version 1.2 that doesn't crash here. This lets me view the physical device(s)

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 16:57 schrieb Rich Freeman: > If you're doing software RAID or just individual disks, then you're > probably going to go into the controller and basically configure that > disk as standalone, or as a 1-disk "RAID". That will make it appear > to the OS, and then you can do whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 16:38 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > And theese on the aac, since they have the same scsi host, and I guess > that scsi ch.0 is for the configured drives and ch.1 for the raw drives: >> [1:0:1:0]diskICP SAS2 V1.0 /dev/sda >> [1:0:2:0]diskICP Dev

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:38 AM wrote: > > Stefan G. Weichinger: > > On an older server the customer replaced a SAS drive. > > > > I see it as /dev/sg11, but not yes as /dev/sdX, it is not visible in "lsblk" > > Perhaps theese links will help: > > https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-checking-sas

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > On an older server the customer replaced a SAS drive. > > I see it as /dev/sg11, but not yes as /dev/sdX, it is not visible in "lsblk" ... Not that I think it will help you much, but there is sys-apps/sg3_utils: # lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskATA TOSHIBA MG03ACA3 FL1

[gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On an older server the customer replaced a SAS drive. I see it as /dev/sg11, but not yes as /dev/sdX, it is not visible in "lsblk" Back then with an installed Suse Linux, I had some GUI tool to create a VD on top of the physical drive and "enable" it ... I am searching how to achieve that in g

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:36 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > That assumes that there is a boot loader. There wasn't one with the old > Slackware boot & root disks. > Linux no longer supports direct booting from the MBR. arch/x86/boot/header.S bugger_off_msg: .ascii "Use a boot loader.\r\n"

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread karl
Peter Humphrey: ... > In my case I > haven't needed an initramfs so far, and now I see I still don't need one - > why > add complication? Having set the kernel option to assemble raid devices at > boot time, now that /dev/md0 has been created I find it ready to go as soon > as > I boot up an

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 02:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: AFAIR the initramfs code is built into the kernel, not as an option. The reason given for using a cpio archive is that it is simple and available in the kernel. The kernel itself has an initramfs built into it which is executed automatically, it's ju

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:37:31 GMT Wol's lists wrote: > On 28/01/2019 16:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I must be missing something, in spite of following the wiki instructions. > > Can someone help an old duffer out? > > Gentoo wiki, or kernel raid wiki? Gentoo wiki. It's fascinating to se

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:37:43 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > An initramfs typically loads kernel modules, assuming there are any > > that need to be loaded. > > And where is it going to load them from if said kernel doesn't support > initrds or loop back devices or the archive or file system ty

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 20:58:37 +, Wol's lists wrote: > On 29/01/2019 19:41, Grant Taylor wrote: > > The kernel /must/ have (at least) the minimum drivers (and dependencies) > > to be able to boot strap.  It doesn't matter if it's boot strapping an > > initramfs or otherwise. > > All of the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 29/01/2019 19:41, Grant Taylor wrote: The kernel /must/ have (at least) the minimum drivers (and dependencies) to be able to boot strap.  It doesn't matter if it's boot strapping an initramfs or otherwise. All of these issues about lack of a driver are avoided by having the driver statical

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:37 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 01:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Uh, an initramfs typically does not exec a second kernel. I guess it > > could, in which case that kernel would need its own initramfs to get > > around to mounting its root filesystem. Presum

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 01:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Uh, an initramfs typically does not exec a second kernel. I guess it could, in which case that kernel would need its own initramfs to get around to mounting its root filesystem. Presumably at some point you'd want to have your system stop kexecing k

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 28/01/2019 16:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: I must be missing something, in spite of following the wiki instructions. Can someone help an old duffer out? Gentoo wiki, or kernel raid wiki? Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 29/01/2019 19:01, Rich Freeman wrote: It would surely be a bug if the kernel were capable of manipulating RAIDs, but not of initialising and mounting them. Linus would disagree with you there, and has said as much publicly. He does not consider initialization to be the responsibility of ke

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:15 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > You seem to be focusing on the second kernel that the initramfs execs. > Uh, an initramfs typically does not exec a second kernel. I guess it could, in which case that kernel would need its ow

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Obviously. Hence the reason I said that it shouldn't matter if the module is built in-kernel. I'm saying it does matter. I'm not sure why it seems like we're talking past each other here... You seem to be focusing on the second kernel that the in

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:59 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > It couldn't. Hence the reason I said, "obviously it needs whatever > > drivers it needs, but I don't see why it would care if they are built > > -in-kernel vs in-module." > > You are missing wh

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:52 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > However, as soon as you throw so much as a second hard drive in a system > > that becomes unreliable. > > Mounting the root based on UUID (or labels) is *WONDERFUL*. It makes > the system MUC

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: It couldn't. Hence the reason I said, "obviously it needs whatever drivers it needs, but I don't see why it would care if they are built -in-kernel vs in-module." You are missing what I'm saying. Even the kernel the initramfs uses MUST have support

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 29/01/2019 16:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, All. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it be sensible to start the raid volume by putting an mdadm --ass

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: If all my boxes could function reliably without an initramfs I probably would do it that way. ;-) However, as soon as you throw so much as a second hard drive in a system that becomes unreliable. I disagree. I've been reliably booting and running

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:41 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > That is news to me. Obviously it needs whatever drivers it needs, but > > I don't see why it would care if they are built in-kernel vs in-module. > > How is a kernel going to be able to mou

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Not sure why you would think this. It is just a cpio archive of a root filesystem that the kernel runs as a generic bootstrap. IMHO the simple fact that such is used when it is not needed is ugly part. This means that your bootstrap for initializing

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:22 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I don't see the value in using a different configuration on a box simply > > because it happens to work on that particular box. Dracut is a more > > generic solution that allows me to keep host

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: I don't see the value in using a different configuration on a box simply because it happens to work on that particular box. Dracut is a more generic solution that allows me to keep hosts the same. And if all the boxes in the fleet can function witho

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:54 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 10:58 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Can't say I've tried it recently, but I'd be shocked if it changed much. > > The linux kernel guys generally consider this somewhat deprecated > > behavior, and prefer that users use an initramf

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:39 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:58:38 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Can't say I've tried it recently, but I'd be shocked if it changed > > much. The linux kernel guys generally consider this somewhat > > deprecated behavior, and prefer that us

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 10:58 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Can't say I've tried it recently, but I'd be shocked if it changed much. The linux kernel guys generally consider this somewhat deprecated behavior, and prefer that users use an initramfs for this sort of thing. It is exactly the sort of problem an in

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Rich. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:58:38 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:48 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > > On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I'd rather not have to create an initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:48 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it > > > be sensible to start the raid volume by puttin

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 09:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: However, there's another quirk which bit me: something in the Gentoo installation disk took it upon itself to renumber my /dev/md2 to /dev/md127. I raised bug #539162 for this, but it was decided not to fix it. (This was back in February 2015.)

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, All. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it > > be sensible to start the raid volume by putting an mdadm --assemble > > command into, say, /etc/l

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it be sensible to start the raid volume by putting an mdadm --assemble command into, say, /etc/local.d/raid.start? The machine doesn't boot from /dev/md0. Drive by comment. I tho

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:08:27 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 09:20:46 GMT Mick wrote: > > Hello Mick, > > --->8 > > > Do you have CONFIG_MD_RAID1 (or whatever it should be these days) built in > > your kernel? > > Yes, I have, but something else was missing: CONF

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 09:20:46 GMT Mick wrote: Hello Mick, --->8 > Do you have CONFIG_MD_RAID1 (or whatever it should be these days) built in > your kernel? Yes, I have, but something else was missing: CONFIG_DM_RAID=y. This is in the SCSI section, which I'd overlooked (I hadn't needed i

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Mick
Hello Peter, On Monday, 28 January 2019 16:56:57 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > When I run "mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 > /dev/ sdb2", this is what I get: > > # mdadm --stop /dev/md0 > mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 > # mdadm: /dev/sda2 appears to contain an

[gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, (I've been off-line for ten days and I haven't yet caught up with the list. I had to send my machine to its maker to have a cooling-system hardware fault fixed.) I've added two SSDs to my workstation, intending to create a RAID-1 array on them to store backups (which may be another

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-24 Thread Facundo Curti
Thank you all! :) I finally have all clear. I'm going to do raid 10. Any way, I'm going to do a benchmark before to install. Thank you!;) 2014-02-24 14:03 GMT-03:00 Jarry : > On 24-Feb-14 7:27, Facundo Curti wrote: > > n= number of disks >> >> reads: >>raid1: n*2 >>raid0: n*2 >> >> wri

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-24 Thread Jarry
On 24-Feb-14 7:27, Facundo Curti wrote: n= number of disks reads: raid1: n*2 raid0: n*2 writes: raid1: n raid0: n*2 But, in real life, the reads from raid 0 doesn't work at all, because if you use "chunk size" from 4k, and you need to read just 2kb (most binary files, txt files, e

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-23 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/02/2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi. I am again, with a similar question to previous. I want to install RAID on SSD's. Comparing THEORETICALLY, RAID0 (stripe) vs RAID1 (mirrior). The performance would be something like this: n= number of disks reads: raid1: n*2 raid0: n*2 writ

[gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-23 Thread Facundo Curti
Hi. I am again, with a similar question to previous. I want to install RAID on SSD's. Comparing THEORETICALLY, RAID0 (stripe) vs RAID1 (mirrior). The performance would be something like this: n= number of disks reads: raid1: n*2 raid0: n*2 writes: raid1: n raid0: n*2 But, in real life

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Facundo Curti
>Please let us know what the performance is like when using the setup you are thinking off. Of course. I will post these here :) 2014-02-22 16:13 GMT-03:00 Facundo Curti : > Thank you so much for the help! :) It was very useful. > > I just need wait my new PC, and try it *.* jeje. > > Bytes! ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Facundo Curti
Thank you so much for the help! :) It was very useful. I just need wait my new PC, and try it *.* jeje. Bytes! ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 22/02/2014 11:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, February 22, 2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2014-02-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/09/2013 07:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, September 5, 2013 05:04, James wrote: Hello, What would folks recommend as a Gentoo installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 installation? My previous attempts all failed to trying to follow (integrate info from) a myriad-malaise of old docs. I w

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 22 February 2014, at 5:27 am, Facundo Curti wrote: > ... > I'm going to get a new PC with a disc SSD 120GB and another HDD of 1TB. But > in a coming future, I want to add 2 or more disks SSD. > > Mi idea now, is: > > Disk HHD: /dev/sda > /dev/sda1 26GB > /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, February 22, 2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: > Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) > First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak > spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's a > great chance to practice my english

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: [ snip ] > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/269586 > [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/269628 Also, check [3], since the solution on [2] was unnecessarily complex. Regards. [3] http://comments.gm

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Facundo Curti wrote: > Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) > First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak > spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's a > great chance to practice my engli

[gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-21 Thread Facundo Curti
Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's a great chance to practice my english :) Now, the problem. I'm going to get a new PC with a disc S

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID help

2013-10-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2013 20:28:46 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I haven't had to set up a software RAID for years and now. I want to set > > up two RAID 1 arrays on a new file server to serve SBM to MSWindows > > clients. The first RAID1 ha

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID help

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I haven't had to set up a software RAID for years and now. I want to set up > two RAID 1 arrays on a new file server to serve SBM to MSWindows clients. The > first RAID1 having two disks, where a multipartition OS installation will take

[gentoo-user] RAID help

2013-10-15 Thread Mick
Hi All, I haven't had to set up a software RAID for years and now. I want to set up two RAID 1 arrays on a new file server to serve SBM to MSWindows clients. The first RAID1 having two disks, where a multipartition OS installation will take place. The second RAID1 having two disks for a sing

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2013-09-04 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 05.09.2013 05:04, schrieb James: Do you want to use a software raid of hardware raid? File system that is best for a Raid 1 workstation? Well, of course only file systems being supported by the rescue system of your hosting provider. File system that is best for a Raid 1 (casual usage)

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2013-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, September 5, 2013 05:04, James wrote: > Hello, > > What would folks recommend as a Gentoo > installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 > installation? My previous attempts all failed > to trying to follow (integrate info from) > a myriad-malaise of old docs. I would start with the Raid+LVM Qui

[gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2013-09-04 Thread James
Hello, What would folks recommend as a Gentoo installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 installation? My previous attempts all failed to trying to follow (integrate info from) a myriad-malaise of old docs. It seems much of the documentation for such is deprecated, with large disk, newer file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Pau Peris
Thx a lot Paul, this morning i noticed there was some kind of issue on my old initrd which works fine for 2.6 kernels, so created a new initrd which works fine and let me to boot into GNU/Gentoo Linux with same 3.5 bzImage. Gonna check if the issue came from mdadm, thx :) 2012/10/26 Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, > > > i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've just > migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. > > > As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able > to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, thanks a lot for both answers. I've just checked my kernel config and CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC is not setted so gonna take a look at it all with "set -x". Thanks :) 2012/10/26 J. Roeleveld > Pau Peris wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
Pau Peris wrote: >Hi, > > >i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've >just >migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. > > >As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be >able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the new >3.5 >co

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:36:38 +0200, Pau Peris wrote: > As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be > able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the new > 3.5 compiled kernel fails to boot complaining about "no block devices > found". After taking a

[gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've just migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the new 3.5 compiled kernel fails to boot com

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 install

2011-07-30 Thread pk
On 2011-07-30 03:04, james wrote: > Ok so my first issue is the installation media > and a lack of tools for GPT (GUID Partition Table). > the "4k block" (GPT) issue? Maybe I missed it > on the minimal CD? If you're after GPT-able partition software you can use (g)parted, available on the Gen

[gentoo-user] RAID-1 install

2011-07-29 Thread james
Ok so my first issue is the installation media and a lack of tools for GPT (GUID Partition Table). On the minimal.iso [1] I see in sbin: cfdisk fdisk mac-fdisk pmac-fdisk sfdisk Perhaps another installation media that makes setting up the identical (raid) drives that have the "4K block iss

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, James wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo > software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, > guides and documents to reference are all welcome. > > I have this link, which is down as the best example: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, James wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo > software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, > guides and documents to reference are all welcome. > > I have this link, which is down as the best example: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com

[gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-03-31 Thread James
Hello, I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, guides and documents to reference are all welcome. I have this link, which is down as the best example: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software Additionally, I have these links for a gui

[gentoo-user] RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-16 Thread Mark Knecht
I have a newish high-end machine here that's causing me some problems with RAID, but looking at log files and dmesg I don't think the problem is actually RAID and more likely udev. I'm looking for some ideas on how to debug this. The hardware: Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel Core i7-980x 12GB DRAM 5

Re: [gentoo-user] raid autodetection uuid differences

2010-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:00 PM, David Mehler wrote: > Hello, > I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On > boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm > getting: > > > I've booted with a live CD and checked the arrays they look good, i'm > not sur

Re: [gentoo-user] raid autodetection uuid differences

2010-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 April 2010, David Mehler wrote: > Hello, > I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On > boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm > getting: > > md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect > md: If you don't use raid,

[gentoo-user] raid autodetection uuid differences

2010-04-17 Thread David Mehler
Hello, I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm getting: md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: Sc

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH wrote: >> Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> [...] >>> >>> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB >>> green drives. [] >>> - Mark >>> >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> What do you m

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH wrote: > Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > [...] >> >> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB >> green drives. [] >> - Mark >> > > Hi Mark, > > What do you mean by "green drives"? I had been told - but never searched for > c

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH wrote: >> Mark Knecht schrieb: >>> >> > :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe > keeps me happy. :-) > > So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB > green drives. Now I just need to dec

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread KH
Am 20.03.2010 19:29, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] I'm thinking I'll keep it as simple as possibly and just spread out the Gentoo install over the multiple hard drives without using RAID, but maybe not. It would be nice to have everything on RAID but I don't know if I should byte that off for my fi

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread KH
Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB green drives. [] - Mark Hi Mark, What do you mean by "green drives"? I had been told - but never searched for confirmation - that those energy saving drives change spinning and

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 19.03.2010 23:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: > [...] >> >>    The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: >> >> /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root >> > > /boot shouldn't be there, either. Not sure about /bi

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH wrote: > Mark Knecht schrieb: >> >> Hi, > > [...] >> >> 3) Wife's new desktop > > [...] >> >> I want high reliability > > [...] >> >> The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. > > [...] >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> > > Hi Mark, > > For me it soun

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread KH
Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, [...] 3) Wife's new desktop [...] I want high reliability [...] The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. [...] Thanks, Mark Hi Mark, For me it sounds like those points just don't fit together ;-) Regards kh

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.03.2010 23:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] > >The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: > > /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root > /boot shouldn't be there, either. Not sure about /bin > which seems sensible. From an install point of view I'm wonde

[gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm starting to put together a server-type machine with multiple purposes: 1) MythTV server 2) General backups for another fast machine I'm going to build 3) Wife's new desktop Since all of these requirements are pretty modest but I want high reliability I'd like to do software RAID wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker? [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 12:58:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi All, > > I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to > merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. > > Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to " cat /proc/mdstat ") > > Is there a way th

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
>> It would be interesting to know whether hardware RAID would behave any >> differently or allow the sync to perform in the background. I have >> only 1.5TB in RAID5 across 4 x 500gb drives at present; IIRC the >> expansion from 3 x drives took some hours, but I can't recall the >> initial setup.

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 14:20:28 Stroller wrote: > On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > ... > > I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software > > raid to > > merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. > > > > Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (accordin

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to " cat /proc/ mdstat ") Is there a way that will speed this up?

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