iostat? (was Re: Bonnie stats??)

1999-03-11 Thread steve rader
Greetings... > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, David Mansfield wrote: > > Bonnie is not 'monitoring' software per se. It won't give you usage stats > > or anything like that. > From: Steve Frampton > I'm beginning to think that there is *no* monitoring software for RAID > array usage stats? ;-( T

Re: AW: 2.2.X stability for production evironments

1999-03-11 Thread A James Lewis
There is also a "resize2fs" tool which you can download from powerquest (ELF binary) if you have a Partition Magic Licence Number. I believe that the software was developed in no small part by Theodore T'so and will eventually be released (Or atleast the resize2fs part) as GNU... When I enq

RAID-1 setup, "mkraid: aborted"

1999-03-11 Thread Osma Ahvenlampi
On a system which already has several RAID5 filesystems (/dev/md1 to md4), I'm trying to set up a root-RAID-1. Actually I tried this a long time ago, and when it didn't work, I left it alone due to lack of time to play with it. I'm now trying to finish the work. system is Linux 2.0.36 with RAID

Re: support for Promise cards?

1999-03-11 Thread Tim Moore
Supported in 2.0.35 with ide2/3 definitions on boot line (see UDMA howto), and native in 2.0.36. > Does it at least support the Promise Ultra33 card, to enable use of more than 4 > IDE drives in a system? -- [Replies: make the double y a single] "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden.

AW: 2.2.X stability for production evironments

1999-03-11 Thread Till Mommsen
Second, are there any tools to manipulate the partition size of an ext2 file system? For some reason, I think there is a technical reason for the lack of such tools, but I could be wrong so I'm asking. Yes. there is Partition Magic 4.0 (I think it's Powerquest) that handles ext2 file system.

Re: EXT2-fs error, Free blocks count corrupted for block group X

1999-03-11 Thread David Mansfield
> > Did anyone else see that "Free blocks count corrupted for block group X" > error in /var/log/messages? > Or others, especially with large filesystems? > Mine is a 24GB raid 5 (hardware dac960). It was fixable with fsck, and hasn't occurred since the 2.2.0prex kernels. Nonetheless that is