RAID5 BG RECONSTRUCTION EATS MEMMORY

1999-11-02 Thread Marcus Zoller
Hi, i have a very very very big problem with my current raid setup and i don't know any further tricks to try.. I have an raid5 setup with an Adaptec 2940UW, 5 disks, kernel 2.2.5, raidtools 0.9 yesterday my system crashed and after booting the system trys to reconstruct the raid in the backgro

Re: Root RAID and unmounting /boot

1999-11-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Marcos Lopez wrote: > I am attempting to get my system to run RAID 1 for /, /usr, /var, /home > > I have moved over all except for / and it works fine. > > After reading the howto "Root file system on RAID. by - Jakob > OEstergaard" I have decided to take the first approach, unfortunately I >

Re(2): Raid1 install / kernel 2.2.5 (Redhat 6.0)

1999-11-02 Thread Marc Barrot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >You need to download the raid patch for your >kernel... raid0145-19990824-2-2-11.bz2 for 2.2.11/12/13 kernels. The >kernels ship supporting raidtools 0.42.. Thanks David. I'm now well aware of this. I've found a patch for kernel 2.2.5-15 and raidtools 0.90 in the R

Re: IP Networking Consultant Wanted for stack port

1999-11-02 Thread cprice
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Robert wrote: > This is not really the correct list for this post, but I feel there are > some very knowledgable people on this list, I figure that someone here may > very well be qualified or know of someone else who is..Feel free to > forward this to someone else if

ide and hot swap

1999-11-02 Thread Seth Vidal
I know this has been covered before but I can't find a searchable archive of this list anywhere. We've got DLT's doing backups right now and we're conceiving that it might be cheaper to setup a system with 2 or 3 linear striped or raid 0 34+gig ide disks and have 2 sets of these disks that we swa

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Ferrell
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:16:57PM -0600, Mark Ferrell wrote: > > You also have to remember that in most LVM implementations adding a device to the > > LVM does not add it to the raid. > [snip] > > "Oh look .. the 90G raid5 array is getting pretty full .. I guess we shou

Problems moving from debian to RH with RAID

1999-11-02 Thread Simon Haddon
Hi, I have a difficult RAID problem. I was building a system with debian 2.1 using RAID 1 on hdb and hdc (leaving hda for boot). I managed to get the raid working just fine but was having to many problems with Oracle and ColdFusion, so I decided to switch over to RH 6.0 as both products are

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:16:57PM -0600, Mark Ferrell wrote: > You also have to remember that in most LVM implementations adding a device to the > LVM does not add it to the raid. [snip] > "Oh look .. the 90G raid5 array is getting pretty full .. I guess we should add > more drives to it .. oh ..

mkraid aborted - device too small??

1999-11-02 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
mkraid fails complaining about the device being too small. Here's the details; Using raidtools-0.50beta3 and 2.0.38 kernel with /etc/raidtab; raiddev /dev/md2 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 128 device /dev

Re: New on list and some questions

1999-11-02 Thread Shoggoth
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote: [Very Good stuff snipped] > - and raid level 0 sets for disk2 and disk4, as you don't care about > redundancy w/ index files (you can easily recreate them). I don't know if > using raid 0 in that machine will give more performance, (although you'

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Ferrell
You also have to remember that in most LVM implementations adding a device to the LVM does not add it to the raid. For example, let's say we have a raid1 array with 2 devices on it, and we have assigned the array to be part of an LVM. Now, let's say you add a 3rd drive. At this point you have n

Re: PROs and CONs of booting RAID?

1999-11-02 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 08:09:29AM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > Actually, HP-UX, on HP9000 V-class, has a journaling file system. I've got that only guarantees filesystem metadata integrity, not application data integrity. > EMC coming in this afternoon, I'll ask them about the battery back

IP Networking Consultant Wanted for stack port

1999-11-02 Thread Robert
This is not really the correct list for this post, but I feel there are some very knowledgable people on this list, I figure that someone here may very well be qualified or know of someone else who is..Feel free to forward this to someone else if the latter is the case. I am looking for a con

EXT2-fs warnings

1999-11-02 Thread Bryce Willing
I have an i386 machine running RH6.1, booting from a small IDE drive and running a 3 disk scsi raid 5 array. I had little trouble following the How-To to get the array set up, and by all indications it's up and running. A cat of /proc/mdstat produces   [root@tiki_tiki raid]# cat /proc/mdstat

RE: PROs and CONs of booting RAID?

1999-11-02 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
Actually, HP-UX, on HP9000 V-class, has a journaling file system. I've got EMC coming in this afternoon, I'll ask them about the battery backup on the write-back cache. My memory may be fuzzy, but I thought it was an option, on Symetrix. I build 99.99+% sites ... that's what I do. > -Origin

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Egon Eckert wrote: > > There's a new version of the raidreconf utility out. I call it 0.0.2. > > Isn't this what supposed 'LVM' to be about? (BTW there seem to be 2 > different implementations of LVM on the web -- one included in 0.90 raid > patch and o

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Egon Eckert
> There's a new version of the raidreconf utility out. I call it 0.0.2. Isn't this what supposed 'LVM' to be about? (BTW there seem to be 2 different implementations of LVM on the web -- one included in 0.90 raid patch and one on http://linux.msede.com/lvm/) Can someone clarify this? A few mo

raid0 refuses to reconstruct

1999-11-02 Thread Uwe Schmeling
Hi all! My raid0 config looks as follows: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks1 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size128 device/dev/sda5 raid-disk 0 device/dev/sd

RE: PROs and CONs of booting RAID?

1999-11-02 Thread Matthew Clark
We have an HP Netserver which is set up in exactly this way.. but UPS or not, if someone (perhaps intentionally) removes the power cords from the power supplys, or the machine (it's never done this yet) just crashes, what happens to the filesystem on the RAID? I like the sound of the two technolo