Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers

1998-10-18 Thread Luca Berra
during a hot reconstruction of a raid1 array i get these messages (thousands of these) Oct 18 17:55:32 X kernel: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers machine is: PII 266Mhz, Asus MB, BX Chipset, 128Mb 66Mhz SDRAM adaptec 2940UW with 2 IBM DDRS-34560W 4.5 Gb 7200RPM Linux X 2.

Re: Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-10-18 Thread Luca Berra
you can concatenate any number of disks with linear, the problem lies in extending the filesystem on them. options are: formatting buying some product from PowerQuest and obtaining the resize2fs tool if i remember correctly ext2-volume was a patch Miguel de Icaza wrote a long ago and it was not d

Re: Is this possible/feasible

1998-10-18 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Tod Detre wrote: > in 2.1 kernels you can mak nfs a block device. raid can work with block > devices so if you raid5 several nfs computers one can go down, but you > still can go on. you probably want to use Stephen Tweedie's NBD (Network Block Device), which works over

Re: RAIT

1998-10-18 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:00:09AM -0700, Hardware Stuff wrote: > So...can I make a RAID0-linear of tape drives? Older, lower capacity > drives abound. Onsale has 2 Gig drives for $40. An 8 Gig tape > compatible with Linux is $800. I can buy alot of pizza with the > difference. Getting a busy

Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-10-18 Thread Johan Grönvall
Hi, I'm new to this list so please bare with me if I ask stupid questions. I'm looking for a kind of linear solution. I have however got the impression that you can only 'concatenate' 2 disks or partitions to make a single md device. Correct? And both disks need to be reformatted. Right? If th

Is this possible/feasible

1998-10-18 Thread Tod Detre
in 2.1 kernels you can mak nfs a block device. raid can work with block devices so if you raid5 several nfs computers one can go down, but you still can go on. 8-) just an idea -- Tod Detre |"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at | least find you handy." -Red Green

Re: Non disk devices on ICP Vortex controller

1998-10-18 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 11:55 PM 10/17/98 +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote: >Chris J. Magnuson wrote: >> >> You don't mention which Linux you are running, this could make a big >> difference. >> > >I'm running RedHat 5.1 on it. After reading the responses that have some back, >I think I'll either:- > >Hope 2.0.36 comes ou

Re: problem with raid0

1998-10-18 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
you have to add the persistent-superblock 1 line to your raidtab before creating the RAID0 array. -- mingo On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > > I just setup raid level 0 across 2 drives, disk 0 is a part of sda, sda3, > and disk 1 is the entire sdb, sdb1. > > Everything

Re: Non disk devices on ICP Vortex controller

1998-10-18 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Chris J. Magnuson wrote: > > You don't mention which Linux you are running, this could make a big > difference. > I'm running RedHat 5.1 on it. After reading the responses that have some back, I think I'll either:- Hope 2.0.36 comes out RSN, and fixes the Adaptec stuff (which I was previously

Re: RAID-0 and Adaptec 2940UW for an INN setup (fwd)

1998-10-18 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 01:25 PM 10/15/98 +, Adam Williams wrote: >> >> I had considered using the new Adaptec 2940U2W controller with appropriate >> disks, but cannot locate any good information on compatibility and reports >> of failure or success from anyone using this controller under Linux. >> >> I appreciate