Re: EVMS or md?

2005-04-05 Thread Brad Campbell
H. Peter n wrote: No hiccups, data losses, or missing functionality. At the end of the whole ordeal, the filesystem (1 TB, 50% full) was still quite prisine, and fsck confirmed this. I was quite pleased :) I second this. I endured numerous kernel crashes and other lockup/forced restart issues

EVMS or md?

2005-04-04 Thread Guy
I am top posting since I am starting a new topic. Don't get me wrong, I like and trust md, at least with kernel 2.4. This is the first I knew about EVMS, the website makes it sound wonderfull! http://evms.sourceforge.net/ Is EVMS better than md? Is EVMS replacing md? Any performance data

[Fwd: Re: [Evms-devel] md raid5 expand possible yet?]

2005-04-04 Thread David Greaves
This is just a potentially interesting forwarded mail from the EVMS mailing list to illustrate the kind of issues/responses to the raid5 resize questions... David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/01/2005 09:16:51 AM: I read in the evms user guide that it should be possible but I can't seem to find

Re: EVMS or md?

2005-04-04 Thread David Kewley
Mike Tran wrote on Monday 04 April 2005 12:28: We (EVMS team) intended to support RAID6 last year. But as we all remember RAID6 was not stable then. I may write a plugin to support RAID6 soon. Hi Mike, In your view, is RAID6 now considered stable? How soon might you have an evms plugin

Re: EVMS or md?

2005-04-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:David Kewley [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid Mike Tran wrote on Monday 04 April 2005 12:28: We (EVMS team) intended to support RAID6 last year. But as we all remember RAID6 was not stable then. I may write a plugin to support