Re: Building arrays in degraded mode?

1999-05-05 Thread Martin Bene
At 18:58 04.05.99 -0500, Steve Costaras wrote: I haven't tried this in a while so I might be doing something wrong here. I'm trying to build a couple arrays in degraded mode (RAID 1 RAID 5). This is on a system running kernel 2.2.6 raid0145-19990421-2.2.6 patch. Any ideas, or is there

processes at D state 2.2.6 raidtoold-19990421-0.90

1999-05-05 Thread Markus Linnala
I ran speedtest on our raid-arrya (script included below). After couple of hours bonnie get stuck in D-state. Also other processes that access raid got stuck in D-state. I've seen this before with 0.90-series raid. Any idea how to debug this problem?

Re: RAID 5 Recovery

1999-05-05 Thread Giulio Botto
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:44:59PM -0400, m. allan noah thusly shaped the electrons: try raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdjx raithotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdix I'm afraid this will not work as the md device is not started yet ... or whatever your drives are. this should put them back into the

Re: RAID 5 Recovery

1999-05-05 Thread anoah
Giulio Botto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:44:59PM -0400, m. allan noah thusly shaped the electrons: try raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdjx raithotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdix I\'m afraid this will not work as the md device is not started yet ... was this about your

RAID-1 problem

1999-05-05 Thread Ludovic Marcotte
Hi! Fisrt of all, thanks to all developers who are working on RAID fu for Linux.. continue your great work! Secondly.. I've a simple problem. I'm trying to get RAID-1 working on an old 486 (for testing purposes) and I would like to mirror a tiny 10 MB partition. (again.. for testing

Which disks for high random seeks?

1999-05-05 Thread Steve Costaras
I figure that someone on this list might be able to save me some time in trial/error. I'm looking to create a small (3-disk) raid-5 array. Each disk will probably be a 9 or 18gb drive. This is for a small news/messaging server. I'm looking for a cost/performance solution that will give me

Re: raid 5 under 2.2.7

1999-05-05 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi Michael Try a mkraid --really-force /dev/md0 Greetings, Dietmar Michael Rothwell wrote: mkraid does this: [root@penguin rothwell]# mkraid /dev/md0 handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/sda2, 8369865kB, raid superblock at 8369792kB /dev/sda2 appears to

raid-1 on reboot

1999-05-05 Thread TH
I am having trouble getting the raid devices to come up at reboot. I am running kernel 2.2.6 w/ the raid0145-19990421-2.2.6 patches applied w/ autodetection of raid devices and raid-1 support in the kernel, also i am using raidtools-19990421-0.90 to mkraid. I followed the instructions w/ the

Server crash

1999-05-05 Thread Paul Hancock
My e-mail server suffered a panic this afternoon. I'm not sure what the underlying problem is, whether it be a bug in the RAID code or some sort of hardware problem. I am running raid0145-19990421-2.2.6 with version 2.2.6. The system has 3 disks, sda, sdb, sdc. They are the same size. sda

Re: Which disks for high random seeks?

1999-05-05 Thread anoah
I\'m looking to create a small (3-disk) raid-5 array. Each disk will probably be a 9 or 18gb drive. This is for a small news/messaging server. I\'m looking for a cost/performance solution that will give me high random I/O. have you considered raid1? i wonder if that might give faster

Re: raid-1 on reboot

1999-05-05 Thread m. allan noah
after i do mkraid i can cat /proc/mdstat and see the progress of the syncing of the disks ... once synced i can stop and start the md device w/ no problems, the trouble is on reboot, at that time the kernel doesnt see /dev/hdc? as operational and continues in degraded mode the actual syslog

Re: Server crash

1999-05-05 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi! On Wed, 5 May 1999, Paul Hancock wrote: May 1 12:49:31 postal kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device md(9,0)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 73716 May 2 10:23:18 postal kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 8 not in group