Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-03-31 Thread Brian Leeper
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Richard Jones wrote: > The stress test script is attached so people can try > this out for themselves. I tried this test script with kernel 2.2.3 and the RAID patch dated 19990309. I let it run for almost 4 hours with 8 processes on a machine with the following configurat

raid5.c developer needed

1999-03-31 Thread David Beccue
I am willing to pay a high hourly rate for someone who understands the raid5.c code to help me understand it. I need help urgently, as soon as possible. I'm a C programmer and I need to make some modifications to the linux raid code for my own project whose deadline is fast approaching. I'm th

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1999-03-31 Thread Dan DeMond
Hello all, I was wondering who does the raidtools debian package? Thanks, Dan DeMond [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Expanding a Linear MD -- Where's the docs, tools?

1999-03-31 Thread Chuck Tellechea
Greetings, Is there some definitive documentation, somewhere, which covers expanding a Linear Concatenation? What specific utilities are required? Within Software Raid mini HOWTO at: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID Miguel De Icaza writes: > I changed the ext2fs

Creating /dev/md??

1999-03-31 Thread Chris DiPierro
Going through the RAID install sheet, it says that after you turn on block devices and RAID support in the kernel, upon reboot, you should see something like the following in /proc/mdstat: Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : i

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-03-31 Thread D. Lance Robinson
I have also experienced file system corruption with 2.2.4. The problem most likely lies in the /fs/buffer.c file which the raid patch had a conflict with. <>< Lance. Tony Wildish wrote: > this sound to me like bad memory. I had a very similar problem recently > and it was a bad SIMM. I was luc

Re: Low performance on K6

1999-03-31 Thread Paul Jakma
i get about 22-24MB/s across 3 IBM UW drives according to bonnie. (reading and writing), and over 200 seeks/sec. 64MB ram. 1x 9.1GB IBM DGHS09U uw 2x 4.3GB DDRS uw Buslogic BT-958. K6 233MHz. TMC TI5VG+ board (via mvp3, 1MB cache). regards, Paul Jakma. On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latest raidtools

1999-03-31 Thread anoah
try ftp.XX.kernel.org where XX=your country code, i.e \"us\". look in the /pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha dir. you should patch kernel with the latest avail \"raid0145\" patch from there, and use a raidtools of similar date from there. use jakob\'s raid-howto that comes with the latest raid tools.

Re: Low performance on K6

1999-03-31 Thread Michael Tibor
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have a clue about what could be going on ?? The main > difference between my own box which ran a similar configuration for long > time seems to be that this box is a K6.Anyone running raid0 on similar > configurations with a K6

Re: Low performance on K6

1999-03-31 Thread Robert Siemer
Re! On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hardware: > 2 x IBM UltraStar 9ES 4.5 GB U2W > Adaptec 2940 UW > AMD K6 - 200 MHz > 64 MB RAM > > Each disk gives us around 11 MB/s using hdparm -t /dev/sd[ab] > > If we run hdparm -t /dev/sda & hdparm -t /dev/sdb, (two hdparm's

latest raidtools

1999-03-31 Thread ricardo
Hi everyone, Where can I get the latest raidtools source? Are there any patches out to this latest source, or is it in itself the most stable? Thanks Ricardo This message powered by EMUmail. http://EMUmail.com

Low performance on K6

1999-03-31 Thread jakob
Hi all ! I promised to show off RAID on a friend's box. Ok, so we set up 2.2.3 with corrosponding patches on his box with the following hardware: 2 x IBM UltraStar 9ES 4.5 GB U2W Adaptec 2940 UW AMD K6 - 200 MHz 64 MB RAM Each disk gives us around 11 MB/s using hdparm -t /dev/sd[a

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-03-31 Thread Tony Wildish
Hello, this sound to me like bad memory. I had a very similar problem recently and it was a bad SIMM. I was lucky enough to have four SIMMS in the machine so I can still run with only two, having removed the bad SIMM and its partner. Two suggestions: Try booting with the 'mem=xxxM' option t

2.2.4+ kernel & Software RAID?

1999-03-31 Thread Chris DiPierro
I'm about to embark on the path of a RAID-1 Software RAID for a server. I'd like to use the 2.2.4 (or greater) kernel because I want the features of 2.2.x and 2.2.3 (and previous) had a DOS TCP/IP problem. However, looking at all the docs, it seems patches only exist through 2.2.3 for software RAI