RE: Improving RAID5 performance (what disks/configuration?)

1998-11-11 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Johns Daniel wrote: You can probably get more throughput with a dual-channel controller like the Mylex 952(?). And, I believe it is cheaper than the 958! Actually, I was thinking of a Diamond Fireport Dual using Symbios parts. But right now, I'm rather pleased with the

Re: Mdrecovery in RAID0

1998-11-11 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Hardware Stuff wrote: I noticed that top shows an mdrecoveryd process, it's existance puzzles me. Based on skimming the list about recent RAID5 changes, I had thought that such a process would only exist for reconstruction of a RAID5 disk set. While I did initially

raid howto for Rh 5.x (long)

1998-11-11 Thread m. allan noah
we have rh 4.2 5.0 and 5.1 running various versions of raid code. the 1005 was the easiest by far. sorry if this seems rudimentary, but there are lurkers here who can use all of this. Ultra-quick start Raid (too quick) Howto: 1. rm -rf /usr/src/linux cause we want clean sources. redhat rpms