Re: Root RAID and unmounting /boot

1999-10-26 Thread Egon Eckert
syslogd 378 root5w REG9,18548 192396 /var/log/boot.log klogd 389 root2r REG8,1 191102 12 /boot/System.map-2.2.12-20 Is it safe to kill these? These are loggers, so I guess nothing terrible would happen. But I wouldn't kill them anyway..

Re: raid howto

1999-10-26 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, October 26, 1999 ] Jakob Østergaard wrote: Another solution is that raidtools, when old md support is detected, issue a clear-like-water message like: [snip] While the newbies should be able to find the docs easily, we don't want experienced users having to scroll thru

autorun

1999-10-26 Thread Philipp Krause, SPTH-Projekt
I'm using the 2.2.9-Kernel, RAID-Patch for the 2.2.10 Kernel and raidtools 0.90. "persistent-superblock" is set to 1 in /etc/raidtab But the kernel simply doesn't start the RAID devices at boot time. kernel boot messages: autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. /proc/mdsstat:

Re: Recovering from a lost disk

1999-10-26 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:59:37PM +, Marc Haber wrote: Is commandname --help really the only documentation besides the source code? Nope --help is misleading, use the source :))) One more thing: In a spare minute, I straced scsidev and found out that it has a buglet: It obviously

RE: Bad rawio/raid performance

1999-10-26 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:12:20 -0700, "Tom Livingston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has anyone else tried raw-io with md devices? It works for me but the performance is quite bad. This is a recently reported issue on the linux-kernel mailing list. The jist of it is that rawio is using a 512

RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-26 Thread G.W. Wettstein
On Oct 25, 8:33pm, Kenneth Cornetet wrote: } Subject: RE: DPT Linux RAID. Carefull on this! There are two EATA drivers. It's been several months since I was trying this driver, but I believe the correct one is simply called EATA. The ones *not* to use are called eata_dma and eata_pio. I got

RE: Bad rawio/raid performance

1999-10-26 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:42:41 -0400 (EDT), David Holl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: would specifying differing input output block sizes with dd help? Unfortunately not, no. The underlying device blocksize is set when the device is first opened. --Stephen

Re: How many Inodes?

1999-10-26 Thread jlewis
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Kent Nilsen wrote: The hardware is a dual PIII500, 256Mb RAM, 3x50Gb Barracudas on a Mylex AccelRaid250. OS: Mandrake 6.1 kernel 2.2.13. With all those tiny files and a huge amount of disk space, be aware that the latest version of mke2fs seems to "decide on a block

RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-26 Thread jlewis
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, G.W. Wettstein wrote: The following is the .config option that needs to be set for reliable operation with the DPT cards: CONFIG_SCSI_EATA=y We have not found the driver configured with the following define to be stable: CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA The

Re: Root RAID and unmounting /boot

1999-10-26 Thread Kelina
At 09:07 26/10/99 -0600, Marcos Lopez wrote: Egon Eckert wrote: syslogd 378 root5w REG9,18548 192396 /var/log/boot.log klogd 389 root2r REG8,1 191102 12 /boot/System.map-2.2.12-20 Is it safe to kill these? These are

Does raid0run work with old-style raid kernels?

1999-10-26 Thread Marc Mutz
Hi out there! I finally want to update my raid0-arrays to the 0.90 style raid. The first thing I did was compiling raid-tools-0.90. That went fine. I then converted my /etc/mdtab into a /etc/raidtab (please check them for errors, they are attached). Next step would be editing the init scripts to

Does raid0run work ... missing attachments (sorry)

1999-10-26 Thread Marc Mutz
(this was so's you can check if they are equivalent. TIA.) # mdtab entry for /dev/md5 /dev/md5raid0,128k,0,008d4eba /dev/sda10 /dev/sdb10 # mdtab entry for /dev/md1 /dev/md1raid0,32k,0,7256556d/dev/sda5 /dev/sdb5 /dev/sdc5 # mdtab entry for /dev/md2 /dev/md2

Re: How many Inodes?

1999-10-26 Thread Marc Mutz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip With all those tiny files and a huge amount of disk space, be aware that the latest version of mke2fs seems to "decide on a block size" based on partition size rather than default to 1kb blocks. I noticed this when Red Hat 6.1 gave me a 2.5gb /var partition

Re: How many Inodes?

1999-10-26 Thread Kent Nilsen
Hello, thanks for the answer! On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Kent Nilsen wrote: The hardware is a dual PIII500, 256Mb RAM, 3x50Gb Barracudas on a Mylex AccelRaid250. OS: Mandrake 6.1 kernel 2.2.13. With all those tiny files and a huge amount of disk space, be aware that the latest version of

Re: How many Inodes?

1999-10-26 Thread jlewis
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Marc Mutz wrote: With all those tiny files and a huge amount of disk space, be aware that the latest version of mke2fs seems to "decide on a block size" based on partition size rather than default to 1kb blocks. I noticed this when Red Hat 6.1 gave me a 2.5gb /var

Re: How many Inodes?

1999-10-26 Thread jlewis
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Kent Nilsen wrote: With all those tiny files and a huge amount of disk space, be aware that the latest version of mke2fs seems to "decide on a block size" based on partition size rather than default to 1kb blocks. I noticed this when Red Hat 6.1 gave me a 2.5gb /var

Re: Recovering from a lost disk

1999-10-26 Thread Marc Haber
In ka.lists.linux.raid, Luca wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:59:37PM +, Marc Haber wrote: One more thing: In a spare minute, I straced scsidev and found out that it has a buglet: It obviously doesn't check the return code of Was it rewitten recently? I don't think so. last time i

raid not auto detecting

1999-10-26 Thread Jason Wong
After setting up raid, the box is unable to autodetect the raid 1 array. doing a cat /proc/mdstat shows that the array is not running however when I type raidstart /dev/md0, then do a cat /proc/mdstat, everything is fine I'm running a stock rh 6.0 install. Where can i look to autodetect and

Re: How many Inodes?

1999-10-26 Thread Marc Mutz
Kent Nilsen wrote: snip mke2fs -b 4096 -m 5 -i 8192 -R stride=128 snip x^^^ = 512k You don't really have 0.5Mb chunk size, do you?? Marc -- Marc Mutz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://marc.mutz.com/ University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics /

Compaq Smart Array RH6.1

1999-10-26 Thread Louis Fung
hi, all Hardware RAID help, please. Thanks. I have a Compaq ProLiant 2500 Server using 2x PPro200mhz, 128MB RAM, Compaq SmartArray 2/E EISA Card with 2x 4.3G and 1x 2.0G HotSwappable HD. but I cannot install RedHat 6.1 or SuSE 6.2, they both cannot see my Smart 2/E. Under RedHat 6.1, I

Build in degraded mode?

1999-10-26 Thread Mark Spencer
I've had a 9-gig SCSI Seagate drive in my machine for a while, and it's mostly full. I've got two new drives and would like to build a RAID-5 with all three drives. Trouble is I don't have anywhere to backup what I've got, so what I'd like to do is build my RAID 5 in degraded mode, and copy all

RE: Build in degraded mode?

1999-10-26 Thread Mark Spencer
I believe you're looking to set one of your three disks as "failed-disk" as opposed to "raid-disk" in your /etc/raidtab file. The device you give it is not even actually accessed or written to; you could put /foo/bar and it will still build degraded without and error, if I'm not