Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-04 Thread Steve Cousins
Andrew Clayton wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:39:09 -0400 (EDT), Justin Piszcz wrote: What type (make/model) of the drives? The drives are 250GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 series ATA-6 UDMA/100 A couple of things: 1. I thought you had SATA drives 2. ATA-6 would be UDMA/133 Th

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-04 Thread Steve Cousins
Steve Cousins wrote: A couple of things: 1. I thought you had SATA drives 2. ATA-6 would be UDMA/133 Number 2 is not correct. Sorry about that. Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Linux Software RAID a bit of a weakness?

2007-02-23 Thread Steve Cousins
eep on top of, both for hardware RAID and software RAID. For md: echo check > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action This should be done regularly. I have cron do it once a week. Check out: http://neil.brown.name/blog/20050727141521-002 Good luck, Steve -- _____

Re: Changing chunk size

2007-02-16 Thread Steve Cousins
ves (file system corruption for instance) so it is wise to do backups, even on "redundant" systems. Good luck, Steve -- __________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert

Re: Raid on USB flash disk

2007-02-10 Thread Steve Cousins
Arne Jansen wrote: > > The main reason why I'm trying this weird setup is that the USB > drive is always enumerated last in my kernel, and I want to boot > from it. That means every time I add a disk or remove one I have > to edit grub.conf and fstab. Very inconvenient. So my idea was > to create

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Cousins
stripe_cache_size) work with RAID6 too? Thanks, Steve -- __________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469Phone: (207) 581-4302 - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: bad performance on RAID 5

2007-01-18 Thread Steve Cousins
Sevrin - 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 -- ______ Steve Cousins, Ocea

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-14 Thread Steve Cousins
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Steve, The recent "Messed up creating new array..." thread has someone who started by using the whole drives but she now wants to use partitions because the array is not starting automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom). I'm guessing this is because t

Re: access array from knoppix

2006-09-14 Thread Steve Cousins
Dexter Filmore wrote: When running Knoppix on my file server, I can't mount /dev/md0 simply because it isn't there. Am I guessing right that I need to recreate the array? How do I gather the necessary parameters? From the man page: mdadm -Ac partitions -m 0 /dev/md0 This will "as

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-12 Thread Steve Cousins
if it is going to cause hassles. I realize that there could be a potential problem if I need to replace a drive with a slightly different model that is slightly smaller. Thanks, Steve -- ______ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling

Re: raidhotadd works, mdadm --add doesn't

2006-09-11 Thread Steve Cousins
Leon Avery wrote: I've been using RAID for a long time, but have been using the old raidtools. Having just discovered mdadm, I want to switch, but I'm having trouble. I'm trying to figure out how to use mdadm to replace a failed disk. Here is my /proc/mdstat: Personalities : [linear

Re: Care and feeding of RAID?

2006-09-05 Thread Steve Cousins
Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:03:45AM -0400, Steve Cousins wrote: These are SATA drives and except for the one machine that has a 3Ware 8506 card in it I haven't been able to get SMART programs to do anything with these drives. How do others deal with this?

Re: Care and feeding of RAID?

2006-09-05 Thread Steve Cousins
Benjamin Schieder wrote: On 05.09.2006 11:03:45, Steve Cousins wrote: Would people be willing to list their setup? Including such things as mdadm.conf file, crontab -l, plus scripts that they use to check the smart data and the array, mdadm daemon parameters and anything else that is

Re: Care and feeding of RAID?

2006-09-05 Thread Steve Cousins
Gordon Henderson wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Paul Waldo wrote: Hi all, I have a RAID6 array and I wondering about care and feeding instructions :-) Here is what I currently do: - daily incremental and weekly full backups to a separate machine - run smartd tests (short once a day, lon

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Cousins
Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday August 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a set of 11 500 GB drives. Currently each has two 250 GB > > partitions (/dev/sd?1 and /dev/sd?2). I have two RAID6 arrays set up, > > each with 10 drives and then I wanted the 11th drive to be a hot-spare

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Cousins
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 at 6:34am, Justin Piszcz wrote > > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > >> As for system information, it is (was) a Dual Opteron with CentOS 4.3 (now > >> I'm putting FC5 on it as I write)

Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-08-22 Thread Steve Cousins
'm putting FC5 on it as I write) with a 3Ware 8506-12 SATA RAID card that I am using in JBOD mode so I could do software RAID6. Thanks for your help. Steve -- __________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTE