Re: Raid 1 help(newbie)

1999-02-08 Thread Lucio Godoy
So i guess it would be better to have the root in a different partition and the data that are likely to change in a other partition, and that partition i would mirror it. I hope my backup tapes are working ;)) Lucci = + BRN -- Brasil Networks

Re: Raid 1 help(newbie)

1999-02-08 Thread m. allan noah
someone asked for a url- i have been on vacation of sorts, but i am now updating my root raid howto at: http://www.pfeiffer.edu/~anoah/raid/ i currently only cover the alpha .90 code, as i was able to get the .36 and .42 (i think) code to work from the info in the current howto. one of the .36 b

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-08 Thread Alvin Starr
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi benno > > I have a hardware raid controller running off a P2-200 > with 64Gb of disk...99% full... and it takes > about 45 min to e2fsck it when it goes down dirty... > and takes about 10 min to mount it if it's clean > > - think software raids would be

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi benno I have a hardware raid controller running off a P2-200 with 64Gb of disk...99% full... and it takes about 45 min to e2fsck it when it goes down dirty... and takes about 10 min to mount it if it's clean - think software raids would be worst ? have fun alvin > does anyone of you know h

fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-08 Thread Benno Senoner
Hi, does anyone of you know how long it takes, to e2fsck (after an unclean shutdown) for example a soft-raid5 array of a total size of about 40-50 GB ( example : 6 disk with 9GB (UW SCSI) ) assume the machine is a PII300 - PII400 assume that the raid-array is almost filled with data (so that e2f

Re: Raid 1 help(newbie)

1999-02-08 Thread Alvin Starr
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, steve rader wrote: > > From: Lucio Godoy > > I would like to setup raid1 on my system as follow: > > Hda is partitioned as follow: > > hda1 /swap > > hda2 / > > and HDC is partitioned the same way, both disks are the same size and > > make. > > I like to mirror /dev/hd

Re: Raid 1 help(newbie)

1999-02-08 Thread steve rader
> From: Lucio Godoy > I would like to setup raid1 on my system as follow: > Hda is partitioned as follow: > hda1 /swap > hda2 / > and HDC is partitioned the same way, both disks are the same size and > make. > I like to mirror /dev/hda2 on /dev/hdc2 Are you really sure?! =;) I've done a

Problems with mkraid

1999-02-08 Thread F. Spitzer, GEOSYSTEMS
Perhaps you can help me: I am trying to setup a raid1 diskset with the mdutils. The kernel supports md and the raid1 module is loaded. What I did so far: I tried to edit the mdtab file from scratch (according the online help from mdtab) with vi: The entries look like this: more /etc/mdtab.co

Re: RAID monitor?

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Black
Here's a script that came from somewhere...I run it from crontab like this (it emails root automagically if there's any output): 15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/checkmd -v #! /bin/bash # # This script checks that the md configuration is the same as that # read at configuration time. When called w