Problem in Autodetection

1999-05-26 Thread Ziber K
Hi, I m facing problem in autodetection of my RAID 5 Array. I have followed all the mentioned steps but it didnt seem to work fine woth me. have 2.2.7 kernel with raid0145-19990421-2.2.6 patch. using raidtools-19990421-0.90. Autodetection support is in kernel RAID devices are created using persis

Re: patches for 2.2.9?

1999-05-26 Thread m. allan noah
alpha to the linux community != alpha to closed source community. redhat made a smart move, given all the probs we have telling people to upgrade their 5.2 installation. recent announcements from mingo have informed us not to use the alpha raid patches on the newer kernels just yet. 2.2.6 or 2.2

Re: raid1 on ide decreases read performance

1999-05-26 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi Maybe that raid1 stripes the reads; I am not so familiar with raid1, because most time we use raid0 and raid5 (also I am not sure, if raid5 does not stripe reads). I think, I have read about raid1 striping its reads, but - as I said - I am not sure. By the way, - if we speak about raidtools

Re: Status of raid software?

1999-05-26 Thread Martin Bene
At 10:25 18.05.99 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >Currently stock 2.2.9 doesnt really work well with RAID1/RAID5 (reason yet >unknown, Doug Ledford is investigating the issue). This could either be >the buffer-cache changes in 2.2.8, or a genuine RAID problem. 2.2.7 (with >the small patch i've sent to

help info

1999-05-26 Thread Louis M. Seigal
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Add expansion of exisiting RAID 5 config in software RAID?

1999-05-26 Thread Scott Smyth
I would like to explore the requirements of expanding RAID 0,4, and 5 levels from an existing configuration. For example, if you have 3 disks in a RAID 5 configuration, you currently cannot add a disk to the RAID 5 without destructively remaking the RAID 5 configuration and reformatting the mult