Re: automatic writes..

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Bilow
Did you leave the "update" daemon running? -- Mike On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Paramasivam Kartik wrote: Hi everybody, this is a question about the linux source code. i want to test my modified raid code for reads only. Once after every couple of read requests, a write request is

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2000-04-04 Thread amuehlhaeuser
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Re: Copying partition information

2000-04-04 Thread Jan De Landtsheer
AFAIK there's no tool that can read one partition table and then re-create it on another device in a clever way. You're right that dd would do the trick, just copying the partition table from the one drive to the other. But be careful, if the disks have different geometries (check the

Re: Copying partition information

2000-04-04 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:34:32AM +0200, Jakob Østergaard wrote: AFAIK there's no tool that can read one partition table and then re-create it on another device in a clever way. You're right that sfdisk (it is part of util-linux) L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-04 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Rainer Mager wrote: Hi all, I think my situation is the same as this "two failed disks" one but I haven't been following the thread carefully and I just want to double check. I have a mirrored RAID-1 setup between 2 disks with no spare disks.

Re: Current raid driver for 2.3.42?

2000-04-04 Thread Marc Mutz
Thomas Stegbauer wrote: snip right now i downloaded 2.3.99pre3 but under /blockdevices/multipledevices i get only linear and raid0, but now ^ what should that be? Kernel source? I have linear.c and raid{0,1,5}.c in /usr/src/Linux/2/3/99/pre3/drivers/block.

point me to mail list archive

2000-04-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
Can someone please point me to a mail list archive, or to a location that can help. I need to figure out how to rebuild a raid-1 array using the raidtools .90?? thanks, Geoff Nordli ALI, MCT, MCSE, Master CNE, CCA, A+ G Nordli Associates 430 Heron Pl. Nanaimo BC, V9T 4X7 Phone: 250-714-4102

Re: Redundant servers with RAID

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Bilow
I think you want: http://www.linux-ha.org/ In general, it is better to have two independent servers that replicate data back and forth than to try to put multiple initiators on a common storage bus. SCSI does allow this in theory, but as far as I know Linux does implement the necessary commands

RE: point me to mail list archive (rebuild fixed)

2000-04-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
No worries. I figured out how to do it: /sbin/raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/sda5 where /dev/sda5 is the partition that you want put back into the raid array. thanks everyone. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Geoff Nordli Sent: Tuesday,

Re: point me to mail list archive

2000-04-04 Thread sjbuller
Can someone please point me to a mail list archive, or to a location that can help. There is one at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/. Don't know where the official one is. It would be really handy if the archive location were included in the subscription "welcome" msg, or maybe even in the

Adding a spare-disk to a RAID5 array?

2000-04-04 Thread Darren Nickerson
I've found some cash, and want to add a spare disk to our raid5 array for added redundancy. Can this be done? It is a matter of 1. raidstop 2. add spare to raidtab 3. raidhotadd spare or is it more a matter of 1. raidstop 2. cry 3. mkraid with

Re: Adding a spare-disk to a RAID5 array?

2000-04-04 Thread Darren Nickerson
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, "Gregory" == Gregory Leblanc wrote: + I've found some cash, and want to add a spare disk to our + raid5 array for + added redundancy. + Can this be done? It is a matter of + 1. raidstop + 2. add spare to raidtab + 3. raidhotadd spare Gregory This gives