Re: /boot on RAID5 with GRUB

2005-11-11 Thread Forrest Taylor
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 15:10 -0700, Spencer Tuttle wrote: > Is it possible to have /boot on /dev/md_d0p1 in a RAID5 configuration > and boot with GRUB? Last I checked, GRUB did not have the RAID drivers to read RAID5 before the kernel was up. It can, however boot from RAID1. Forrest - To unsubs

Re: /boot on RAID5 with GRUB

2005-11-11 Thread berk walker
Spencer Tuttle wrote: Is it possible to have /boot on /dev/md_d0p1 in a RAID5 configuration and boot with GRUB? Spencer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

/boot on RAID5 with GRUB

2005-11-11 Thread Spencer Tuttle
Is it possible to have /boot on /dev/md_d0p1 in a RAID5 configuration and boot with GRUB? Spencer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[ANNOUNCE] multipath-tools-0.4.6

2005-11-11 Thread Christophe Varoqui
Hello, here goes multipath-tools-0.4.6. Distributors using mostly-unmodified upstream package are encouraged to upgrade. This version brings important bugfixes and nice new features, including : * add/del cli commands accept map names as param * new add "reinstate/fail" cli commands * new ad

questions about ext3, raid-5, small files and wasted disk space

2005-11-11 Thread kyle
Hi, Assume I want to build a 8 x 250GB disks RAID-5, totally around 1.7TB, with ext3 file system, 4KB block size, and 32KB chunk size. Almost half of the files will be very small ( < 8KB), I'm quite confused with how RAID-5 store data so I want to understand how relation between file system block

Re: New raid5 took 5 days for initial build on spare drive

2005-11-11 Thread Spencer Tuttle
Spencer Tuttle wrote: berk walker wrote: Just a couple of things to think about before the board explodes. :-) Are your drives doing DMA? Important. No, I was not using DMA. I found the patches for the driver I needed applied them now, I am creating an array on the same disks in 30 mins n

doubts about intent-logging

2005-11-11 Thread Carlos Carvalho
If I understand the Compendium (also known as mdadm manpage :-) ) the intent-logging bitmap is stored near the superblock when the name "internal" is specified. Does this mean that it'll be in the 128KB area of the superblock? If so, what happens if there isn't enough space? This is likely for medi