Re: Possible memory leak + setup questions

2000-01-19 Thread Kelina
At 14:31 19-1-00 +0200, Janne Himanka wrote: >We have a dual PII with 8 4.3GB Cheetahs in two uw scsi channels. I >used to run it with kernel 2.2.3, a root disk, spare disk and a raid5 >partition composed of 6 disks. The raid5 partition worked otherwise >well, but within 6 months it lost its super

RE: Possible memory leak + setup questions

2000-01-19 Thread Jones, Clay
Title: RE: Possible memory leak + setup questions According Ingo Molnar the raid maintainer: here is the first alpha version of the '2.4 RAID merge' patch against pre4-2.3.40:     http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ibc-ext2-raid-2.3.40-N1 And for 2.2.14 here is the patch.     http://w

Possible memory leak + setup questions

2000-01-19 Thread Janne Himanka
We have a dual PII with 8 4.3GB Cheetahs in two uw scsi channels. I used to run it with kernel 2.2.3, a root disk, spare disk and a raid5 partition composed of 6 disks. The raid5 partition worked otherwise well, but within 6 months it lost its superblock three times, once in a UPS failure, twice f

Re: moving raid disks around

2000-01-19 Thread Martin Bene
Hi Michael, At 08:39 18.01.00 -0800, Michael wrote: >I presently have an ide raid 5 system that uses master/slave disks >that I'm upgrading to controller/disk. Reading through the various >raid threads leads me to believe that changing the position of a disk >in the array can cause problems and/o

Raid patch for kernel 2.0.34

2000-01-19 Thread Innovation Strategies SL
Hello everybody. I'm using Raid1 with kernel 2.2.13. But I need to install kernel 2.0.34 now. Where can I get the raid patch for kernel 2.0.34? Thanks in advance.

Re: Raid patch for kernel 2.0.34

2000-01-19 Thread James Manning
[ Wednesday, January 19, 2000 ] Innovation Strategies SL wrote: > I'm using Raid1 with kernel 2.2.13. But I need to install kernel 2.0.34 now. > Where can I get the raid patch for kernel 2.0.34? I only see raid patches going back to 2.0.35 at kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/ You might

Re: overlapping physical units !!?!, please help

2000-01-19 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, January 18, 2000 ] KS wrote: > We recently had an ups failure and some of our servers have crashed. When > reviewing the logs on the maschines I have spotted messages like: > > kernel: md: serializing resync, md0 has overlapping physical units with md1! > .. > kernel: md: serializing r

Re: Mixed disks

2000-01-19 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Rainer Mager wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a motley set of disks that I'm hoping to use more effeciently via > raid. Any tips on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Right now I have: > > 2 X 2 Gig SCSI > 1 X 3 Gig SCSI > 1 X 7 Gig SCSI > 1 X 4.5 Gig UW SCSI 2 > 1 X 20 Gig IDE > > I don

Re: [profmad@mindspring.com: Raid Help]

2000-01-19 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, January 17, 2000 ] Holger Kiehl wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, James Manning wrote: > > Just for clarification, the default (stock) RH 6.x *is* patched > > for 0.90 RAID (the 6.1 installer even allows you to install to a > > s/w raid1!) > > And raid0 or raid5, only /boot needs to be raid

Re: RAID, Oracle, and blocksize

2000-01-19 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, January 16, 2000 ] David Corbin wrote: > My real question, is how do strip-size, Oracle block size, and ext2 file > system block size interact, and what should they be to get the most > efficient database? (The database, while not large, is used for both > operations and "warehousing",