On Apr 12 2007 14:26, David Miller wrote:
>From: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 02:15:57 +0200 (MEST)
>
>> Kernel is kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2128sp4.sparc64.rpm from Aurora Corona.
>> Perhaps it helps, otherwise hold your breath until I reproduce it.
>
>Jan, if you can repro
From: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 02:15:57 +0200 (MEST)
> Kernel is kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2128sp4.sparc64.rpm from Aurora Corona.
> Perhaps it helps, otherwise hold your breath until I reproduce it.
Jan, if you can reproduce this with the current 2.6.20 vanilla
kernel I
John Stoffel wrote:
Hi Neil,
I've just installed a new SATA controller and a pair of 320Gb disks
into my system. Went great. I'm running 2.6.21-rc6, with the ATA
drivers for my disks.
I had a RAID1 mirror consisting of two 120gb disks. I used mdadm and
grew the number of disks in md0 to four
Hi Neil,
I've just installed a new SATA controller and a pair of 320Gb disks
into my system. Went great. I'm running 2.6.21-rc6, with the ATA
drivers for my disks.
I had a RAID1 mirror consisting of two 120gb disks. I used mdadm and
grew the number of disks in md0 to four, then added in the t
Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday April 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I forgot to ask something, sorry. With RAID0 and all the odd size drives
>> I have I'd get a lot of left over unused space. Is there anyway to make
>> use of this slack?
>>
>
> md/raid0 makes use of all available spac
Hi,
While I was trying to understand while an old server (which was happily
running linux 2.6.16 without initrd) was not booting anymore after a
migration to Etch and a new kernel (2.6.20.6 with initrd), I found the
following issue:
$ mdadm --detail --scan
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2
Neil Brown wrote:
md/raid0 makes use of all available space (modulo chunk size).
To quote from "man md"
If devices in the array are not all the same size, then once the small‐
est device has been exhausted, the RAID0 driver starts collecting
chunks into smaller stri
On Thursday April 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I forgot to ask something, sorry. With RAID0 and all the odd size drives
> I have I'd get a lot of left over unused space. Is there anyway to make
> use of this slack?
md/raid0 makes use of all available space (modulo chunk size).
To quote from "m
I forgot to ask something, sorry. With RAID0 and all the odd size drives
I have I'd get a lot of left over unused space. Is there anyway to make
use of this slack?
Thanks,
Rich
Rich wrote:
Neil Brown wrote:
(This is maybe sort of off topic since this list about raid and not
filesystems and
