Raid6 : 2-dimensional parity array (was Re: Newbie)

From www.whatis.com "RAID-6. This type is similar to RAID-5 but includes a second parity scheme that is distributed across different drives and thus offers extremely high fault- and drive-failure tolerance" By having two parity schemes and implementing a 2-dimensional parity it would

RE: Software RAID and VMWare?

I have/do run vmware on a raid0 partition (both disk and binaries) without any problems. I have used both 2.2.14 and 2.3.40 without problems. The source for the vmware kernel modules are included, they are not binary only. There's a FAQ on the vmware site that tells how to force the vmware

mkraid did not work !!

Hi ! I did install the raid like it is described at http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ with patch and latest raid-tools. After editing /etc/raidtab like sample with raid1 I do: # mkraid /dev/md0 disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 8956209kB, raid superblock at 8956209kB disk 1:

BSD's Vinum

if you read Slashdot or Daemon News, you can probably 'd' this message about now. if you don't, there was a cool article on BSD's Vinum Software RAID in Daemon News, here: http://www.daemonnews.org/22/vinum.html it has both general RAID information as well as implementation-specific. -s

RE: mkraid did not work !!

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mkraid did not work !! Hi ! I did install the raid like it is described at http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ with patch

Re: mkraid did not work !!

[ Monday, February 7, 2000 ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did install the raid like it is described at http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ with patch and latest raid-tools. After editing /etc/raidtab like sample with raid1 I do: # mkraid /dev/md0 disk 0: /dev/sdb1,

Re: mkraid did not work !!

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! I did install the raid like it is described at http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ with patch and latest raid-tools. After editing /etc/raidtab like sample with raid1 Hi Peter, Run dmesg and look for a line like 'autodetecting

RE: mkraid did not work !!

-Original Message- From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mkraid did not work !! [ Monday, February 7, 2000 ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did install the raid like it

mkraid aborting without any useful information

I have just installed Mandrake 6.1 with mkraid version 0.90.0. The Linux kernel that I am running is version 2.2.13-7mdk. When I attempt to run mkraid, it aborts without returning any useful information. How can I get more information on the cause of my problem? Here is some information about

RE: mkraid aborting without any useful information

-Original Message- From: Carl L. Roy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mkraid aborting without any useful information I have just installed Mandrake 6.1 with mkraid version 0.90.0. The Linux kernel that I am running

Re: mkraid aborting without any useful information

At 03:13 PM 2/7/2000 +, Carl L. Roy wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 6.1 with mkraid version 0.90.0. The Linux kernel that I am running is version 2.2.13-7mdk. When I attempt to run mkraid, it aborts without returning any useful information. How can I get more information on the cause

Re: RAID 0 set broken on RH 6.0

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mike Iglesias wrote: I have a system running Redhat 6.0 that had a RAID 0 disk set on it (2 disks). The system is dual boot with windows 95, and I needed to do something with windows. After doing the windows stuff, I rebooted linux and now the RAID 0 will not mount.

Re: computer reset - what does this mean for raid1 ?

" " == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i believe you should be fine just letting it do its thing on its own. cat /proc/mdstat Thanks, I should have known that. Yes, that's exactly what I did. Everything has returned to normal. When a reset or other catastrophic even happens, I was under

Re: RAID 0 set broken on RH 6.0

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mike Iglesias wrote: Thanks - that worked. I suspected it would, but the note at the begining of the man page for mkraid made me wonder if I was going to fix it and trash it worse at the same time. It could, especially if raidtab is set incorrectly. Raidtab can get out

Re: computer reset - what does this mean for raid1 ?

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Brian Denheyer wrote: " " == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i believe you should be fine just letting it do its thing on its own. cat /proc/mdstat Thanks, I should have known that. Yes, that's exactly what I did. Everything has returned to normal. When a