Re: RAID5 problem...

1998-10-20 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, and sorry for using this kind of bandwidth :) > > In my mail yesterday I indicated that RAID-5 was finally working well > for me, with 2.0.35 pre15. > > Before taking the RAID in production, I wanted to stress-test it. So, I > ran a tar a

Re: Is this possible/feasible

1998-10-20 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Stephen C. Tweedie writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:55:35 +0200 (CEST), MOLNAR Ingo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > 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

RAID5 problem...

1998-10-20 Thread jakob
Hi all, and sorry for using this kind of bandwidth :) In my mail yesterday I indicated that RAID-5 was finally working well for me, with 2.0.35 pre15. Before taking the RAID in production, I wanted to stress-test it. So, I ran a tar and two bonnie jobs. The system locked up to some extent. I c

Re: Is this possible/feasible

1998-10-20 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Ingo, this is actually a problem: on nbd raid1, we *really* want read > balancing to prefer the local disk if possible! aggreed. i'll add user-configurable per-disk priority, and probably a dynamic scheme too. -- mingo