Reconfiguring a RAID system without data loss

1999-10-01 Thread Hubert Tonneau
Release 2 of the Pliant utility for reconfiguring (adding disks, changing the RAID level or the chunk size) a software RAID without loosing (at your own risks: test it on sample datas before using it on real ones) datas is available. The new code is expected to event survive to a disk failure in

Re: RAID-0 or RAID-linear on Redhat 6.0

1999-10-01 Thread Robert
I got a few hints off the mailing list, but not all the information I needed, so last night I just decided to try and make it work with a couple of test partitions. Eventually I did get raid-0 to work, by just trying various things. The biggest thing I found was that you (apparnetly) need to run

RE: undocumented error from /proc/mdstat: read_ahead not set

1999-10-01 Thread Jones, Clay
Title: RE: undocumented error from /proc/mdstat: read_ahead not set You are using the new raid tools (version 90) without having the kernel patched with the new raid code. Kernel patches are found in ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha Clay -Original Message-

Keeping IDE drives from powering down.

1999-10-01 Thread Clinton Bittel
Redhat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 3 - 6.1GB Seagate IDE drives RaidTools-0.90 Raid 5 I have a problem where my IDE drives power down after a period of non use. They produce a horrible cla-ching noise as they go down. I'm concerned that this might corrupt the filesystem, or destroy the drives over

bonnie: where to get it?

1999-10-01 Thread Martin Lichtin
I looked around, at HOWTO's, freshmeat.net, etc. but can't find the latest sources anywhere... does it have a home page? thx, martin

Re: bonnie: where to get it?

1999-10-01 Thread Michael Tibor
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Martin Lichtin wrote: I looked around, at HOWTO's, freshmeat.net, etc. but can't find the latest sources anywhere... does it have a home page? Bonnie lives at http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/ Mike -- Mike Tibor Univ. of Alaska Anchorage(907) 786-1001 voice

mkraid aborted

1999-10-01 Thread george
I have two 9GB SCSI drives on one controller on a Red Hat 6.0 server. My partition table is the following: sda1 boot Primary ext2size of partitionsda5Logical ext2sda6Logical swapDisc #2sdb1Logical ext2size of partitionsdb5Logical ext2sdb6Logical swapMy raidtab file is the following: