Re: kernel 2.2.13

1999-10-20 Thread Daniel Wirth
I did yesterday, same thing as with 2.2.12 - two hunks fail - but running. Daniel On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Stephen Waters wrote: > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:22:21 -0500 > From: Stephen Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: kernel 2.2.13 > > an

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1999-10-20 Thread wanght

RE: Raid troubles

1999-10-20 Thread Tom Livingston
Randy Winch wrote: > I had a raid fail do to an external cable falling off the box last night > (came loose andyway) :-/ I have 2 drives that got marked as failed...It > there anyway to mark them good so I can try to save some of the data ?? http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Softwa

Re: Measuring RAID performance

1999-10-20 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> It's an about four year old Fast SCSI 2 GB hard disk that maxes out at > about 7 MB/s transfer rate. > > >> on a single Fast SCSI Host Adapter with NCR Chipset. > > > >- slow hostadapter, only one channel for 3 HDDs - theoretical limit is 10MB/s. > > I am well aware of that. However, my tests

Re: boot from RAID 1

1999-10-20 Thread Christian Balzer
Jörg Hinz wrote: > >I have still problems using lilo 21 with raid 1 to boot. > >When i use root=/dev/md0 OR root=900 lilo reports everything >unable to handle device 0x0900 ... > >What can I do? > Read this list. Look at this URL: http://linuxwww.db.erau.edu/mail_archives/linux-raid/Aug_99/0273.h

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1999-10-20 Thread cgantz

boot from RAID 1

1999-10-20 Thread Jörg Hinz
Hello! I have still problems using lilo 21 with raid 1 to boot. When i use root=/dev/md0 OR root=900 lilo reports everything unable to handle device 0x0900 ... What can I do? Greetings, Joerg

Re: kernel 2.2.13

1999-10-20 Thread Kelina
I tried it and i'm compiling now, there's 1 extra hunk fail i think, just entered it thru. For people using the ide patch, u'll need the new 2.2.13pre ide patch, cuz the old 2.2.12 ide patch failed on some points (IMHO) If anything goes wrong i'll keep u posted Surge At 09:22 20/10/99 -0500,

Re: (reiserfs) Re: 71% full raid - no space left on device

1999-10-20 Thread Hans Reiser
Experiments sometimes succeed, the code works, try it. Hans Mark Ferrell wrote: > I was under the impression that the reiserfs was more of just an experiemnt in > making a BTree sorted filesystem. -- Get Linux (http://www.kernel.org) plus ReiserFS (http://devlinux.org/namesys). If you sell a

Re: (reiserfs) Re: 71% full raid - no space left on device

1999-10-20 Thread Hans Reiser
We don't have inodes in our FS, but we do have stat data, and that is dynamically allocated (dynamic per FS, not per file yet, soon but not yet each field will be optional and inheritable per file). Does XFS dynamically allocate? It might. Best, Hans "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > Hi, >

Re: 71% full raid - no space left on device

1999-10-20 Thread Mark Ferrell
I was under the impression that the reiserfs was more of just an experiemnt in making a BTree sorted filesystem. "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: Hi, On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:22:25 -0700, Thomas Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I don't know of any Unix FS with dynamic inode allocation..  Is there > one

RAID0

1999-10-20 Thread Manuel Lindauer
Can anyone of you give me a description how to setup up a Software RAID0 partition ?? Thank you

Re: Booting on RAID-1

1999-10-20 Thread James Manning
[ Wednesday, October 20, 1999 ] Paul wrote: > I heard that lilo now supports RAID devices (lilo v 0.21-10). So can anyone > tell me how to make it **boot** off the raid device? the Software-RAID > HOWTO is not very clear (at least, not to me) on this. The Software-RAID HOWTO hasn't been revised

Raid troubles

1999-10-20 Thread Randy Winch
Hi All, I had a raid fail do to an external cable falling off the box last night (came loose andyway) :-/ I have 2 drives that got marked as failed...It there anyway to mark them good so I can try to save some of the data ?? It is a 8 disk software raid 5 array on dual scsi controllers. Randy

Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-20 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:16:47AM -0800, Christopher E. Brown wrote: > > Can you duplicate this using only one of the raid5 sets? I tried to cause > > the same behvior with a single raid5 set and it worked fine... but I did not > > layer raid on raid, perhaps this is where the issue is? > >

Re: Measuring RAID performance

1999-10-20 Thread Marc Haber
btw, I forgot the important information that my RAID array is a RAID 5 array. On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:09:06 +0200, you wrote: >> I am currently experimenting with the Software RAID (patch for 2.2.11 >> applied to 2.2.12 with raidtools snapshot from about three weeks ago). > >Same as I am running h

kernel 2.2.13

1999-10-20 Thread Stephen Waters
anyone tried the 2.2.11-patch on 2.2.13 yet? same hunks fail as on 2.2.12 or...? -- stephen waters amicus, inc.

Booting on RAID-1

1999-10-20 Thread Paul
Hi. I guess this keeps on coming up, but I'll ask anyhow. I want to boot on a RAID 1 array. I have 3 disks (sda, sdb, sdc), all of which work fine. They are all partitioned identically: sd?1 = 8GB, sd?2=128MB swap. I build the system on sda1. All the swap files are used fine. I build a RAID fr

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Stephen Waters
if your init and mount are not statically linked, how on earth are they going to work before /lib is mounted? or wait, suppose you could just keep in the real /lib only libs needed for init, mount and whatever other basic commands on boot (for instance if you have to boot "linux single" one day or

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Seth Vidal
> Nope, sure don't. My new /lib *partition* mount is not even in > /etc/fstab. What will happen at boot time is the /lib *directory* on the / > partition will be available. Right? I never deleted the data in that > partition. I just mounted my new /lib *partition* on top of it for test. > oh.

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Robert
Nope, sure don't. My new /lib *partition* mount is not even in /etc/fstab. What will happen at boot time is the /lib *directory* on the / partition will be available. Right? I never deleted the data in that partition. I just mounted my new /lib *partition* on top of it for test. Best Regards, R

Re: Measuring RAID performance

1999-10-20 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> I am currently experimenting with the Software RAID (patch for 2.2.11 > applied to 2.2.12 with raidtools snapshot from about three weeks ago). Same as I am running here. > The system I am doing these tests on is an older K5-100 - slow CPU For RAID5 you need quite some CPU power (esp. if writ

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Seth Vidal
> Perhaps I am wrong, I expected that a reboot would make the original /lib > available again at boot time. The data is still there, just hidden by the > mount, right? mounting only occurs after fstab is processed. you can't process fstab with the mount command if there are no libraries for m

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Robert
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Seth Vidal wrote: > I think unless your drive mounting and init binaries are statically > linked you're going to hit trouble at boot time. Perhaps I am wrong, I expected that a reboot would make the original /lib available again at boot time. The data is still there, just hi

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Seth Vidal
> Or am I going to run into trouble because /lib's files will be unavailable > for a bit while I enter these commands? Is there a better way to enlarge > /? In general how to you recommend changing partition sizes? Is this an > argument for not seperating directories into different partitions,

moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Robert
I suppose this is an off topic question, other than it's related to disks...:) I find that my / partition is more full than I would like. I like to keep extra space available in case something unexpected happens. Here is the current setup: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use

Measuring RAID performance

1999-10-20 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! I am currently experimenting with the Software RAID (patch for 2.2.11 applied to 2.2.12 with raidtools snapshot from about three weeks ago). The system I am doing these tests on is an older K5-100 with 64 MB RAM. For RAID, I have three Quantum Atlas I on a single Fast SCSI Host Adapter with

Re: 71% full raid - no space left on device

1999-10-20 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:22:25 -0700, Thomas Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I don't know of any Unix FS with dynamic inode allocation.. Is there > one? Reiserfs does, doesn't it? --Stephen